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This year, we invite you to challenge yourself to fight food waste. Choose which parts of the Digital Food Waste Fest 2.020 you want to join and create a programme that fits your schedule and ambitions. Let’s take the fight against food waste together to the next level!

The new nova paper #14 gives an overview on the status and sustainability assessments of new food and biomass technologies such as organic farming, insect protein, artificial meat, precision agriculture, vertical urban farming and improved plant varieties.

ENEA has developed an innovative, fast and low-cost biotechnological method to produce crocins, picrocrocins and safranal in large quantities. They are molecules beneficial to humans and of great interest for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries but very scarce in nature.

The core theme for Science Week 2020 is ‘Choosing our Future’; focusing on how science can improve our lives in the future, and in the present.

Join us for the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference, the main event for circular economy in Europe!

Virtual address by ZEF’s Joachim von Braun looks at how factors such as policy and innovation relate to transformation of food systems.

First International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste observed on 29 September 2020

The European research project REFRESH has examined how private and public stakeholders can work together to turn food waste into worthwhile commodities.

The world is facing depleting fish stocks and fish farming – or aquaculture – offers solutions and could help ensure food security. But aquaculture has been called out for challenging natural biodiversity. Applying technology such as AI, machine learning, satellite data and geospatial datasets can make fish farming sustainable while providing the evidence to prove it.

Fish are food. We know that. And yet, in discussions about the future of food, that simple fact tends to be forgotten. When world leaders gather for the UN Food System Summit next year, fish and other aquatic foods need to be on the table.

The EU-supported BARBARA Project(Biopolymers with Advanced functionalities foR Building and Automotive paRts processed through Additive manufacturing) aims to develop new bio-based materials with innovative functionalities through fused filament fabrication (3D-printing).

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CropLife International renewed and strengthened their commitment to work together and find new ways to transform agri-food systems and promote rural development through on the ground investment and innovation.

More and more people are reducing meat consumption in favor of plant-based alternatives. However, current marketing does not sufficiently reach a large target group of flexitarians.

Its true potential, yet to be exploited, lies in its use for the production of food for human consumption (pasta, bread, soups and vegetable creams ...) and animal feed.

Policy reforms and technological improvements could drive seafood production upward by as much as 75% over the next three decades, research by Oregon State University and an international collaboration suggests.

Women researchers are strongly influencing the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in Africa.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today unveiled a comprehensive platform to help the global community step up action to reduce food loss and waste as the UN agency and partners call for increased efforts and gear up for the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste - to be marked for the first time on 29 September 2020.

Household food waste in the UK has increased by nearly a third as coronavirus lockdown restrictions have been eased and could spiral further, new research has warned.