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  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    UK becomes first European country to approve lab-grown meat

    Cell-cultivated meat has prompted opposition in countries such as Italy, France, Austria and the US

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  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Proposed EU ban on gene-edited crop patents prompts dispute

    Critics of plan include green activists, farmers, biotech start-ups and multinationals

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  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states

    Party spearheads legislation as one lawmaker vows not to ‘eat bugs with Bill Gates’

    A cooked piece of lab-grown chicken breast
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    LexFood & Beverage
    Milk alternatives should not drive investors nutty Premium content

    The performance of companies that specialise in milk and meat alternatives should act as something of an appetite suppressant

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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    The EU risks losing out on farming’s genomic reboot

    Scientists in Africa and elsewhere are seizing the opportunity to transform agriculture

    Andy Carter illustration of 2 branches of a plant, one with a defiant EU type, with his branch wilting and weak looking, and another with African scientists opening a hatch and working on the genes, with a branch full of life.
  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
    Agricultural production
    Food producers turn to greener fertilisers to reduce carbon footprints

    New rules next year will force companies to publish supply chains’ emissions data

    Bread, Heineken beer and KitKats against a combine harvester on a farm
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    LexAgricultural commodities
    GMO seeds: Beijing’s approval sprouts new chapter for suppliers Premium content

    China’s food consumption has already outpaced domestic supply due to factors including increased urbanisation

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  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Climate change
    EU plans to relax GMO restrictions to help farmers adapt to climate change

    Controls could be eased on plants ranging from wheat able to withstand drought to fungus-resistant tomatoes

    Wheat in a field in Montbert near Nantes, France
  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    AI and space technology boost smallholders’ access to finance

    With more data at their fingertips, lenders are finding new ways to serve farmers in developing countries

    A Kenyan woman holds a phone displaying the Apollo Agriculture app
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Energy costs create headwinds for vertical farms

    New crop varieties and a turn to the Middle East could give the sector new impetus

    A worker at Bowery Farming inspects a crop
  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Fertiliser manufacturers strive to curb greenhouse gas emissions

    New production techniques will help, but more judicious use by farmers will help even more

    A student looks at a machine to measure nitrous oxide emissions in a field of oilseed rape
  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Lex
    Lab-grown meat: Italy’s disapproval hard to swallow Premium content

    Giorgia Meloni’s ban looks like an exercise in brand protection

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  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    UK ‘cabbage king’ turns to plant-based proteins

    Naylor Farms, which has developed a method to extract protein from the brassica, is building a facility in the East Midlands

    Simon Naylor of Naylor’s farm
  • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
    Agritech and foodtech sectors suffer funding slump

    Venture capital investments in the segments plunge 44% in 2022 as rising costs and interest rates bite

    Farmers work at the Bowery Farming Inc. indoor farm in Kearny, New Jersey
  • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
    Cultivated meat start-ups race to add products to the menu

    Investors hope more lab-grown food will enter potentially lucrative market after US safety approval

    Plant-based chicken sandwich
  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    Why lab-grown meat may never be on the menu

    High production costs together with increasingly vegetarian appetites may prevent this industry taking off

    Illustration of a person’s arm in a medical white sleeve and hand in a blue surgical glove pouring a chicken out of a flask onto a plate of green vegetables, broccoli on one sided, green beans on the other and peas in the middle
  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    The Big Read
    Mood shifts on gene-edited crops as droughts and wars bite

    The European Commission is considering easing regulation on the technology. But critics say it is an untested risk being pushed by Big Ag

    Farmer Hendrik Jan ten Cate looks down at some grass he is holding
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Scientists test new biological alternatives to toxic pesticides

    Ladybirds, food dye and fungi are all being pressed into the war on harmful insects

    Aerial view of a sugar beet field, with squares dyed blue and red to deter aphids
  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    Food tech: satisfying investors’ appetite for growth?

    Interesting initiatives are emerging — especially in Asia

  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
    Lex
    Algae start-ups: from pond slime to dinner time Premium content

    The organisms are so versatile they can be turned into both food and fuel

    An algae research facility n Japan
  • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
    LexRetail & Consumer industry
    Indoor farming: earning green from leafy greens Premium content

    Farming indoors will not replace the outdoor version soon, but it should not be an either/or trade-off

    Produce grows in trays at an indoor farm in New Jersey, US
  • Friday, 9 September, 2022
    News in-depthFood & Beverage
    Foodtech start-ups push bean-free coffee and chocolate

    Entrepreneurs develop alternatives to products often linked to deforestation and child labour

    A bar of cocoa-free chocolate made by London-based WNWN
  • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
    Biotech
    Cambridge start-up aims to rewrite the code of life

    Constructive Bio plans to reprogramme microbes to make new materials from drugs to biodegradable plastics

    Three synthetic bacteria with reprogrammed genetic code
  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    #techAsia
    Display makers dip into chips and a start-up struggles to deliver Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Monday, 18 July, 2022
    Sayed Azam-Ali
    We must resurrect ‘forgotten’ crops in the fight against a food crisis

    The global agrifood system is wasteful and damaging but there are steps we can take to tackle it

    A Ukrainian soldier stands in a burning wheat field near the border between the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions
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