Created in 2020, the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund aims to address the historical racial land ownership disparity that has affected Black farmers across the country.
New fund helps Black farmers in Detroit purchase land Read more
In October 2020, Ovolo Hotels announced its “Year of the Veg” campaign. All the hotel restaurants went vegetarian for a whole year. Now Ovolo is the first hotel chain to go all veg.
Ovolo is the world’s first hotel group to go vegetarian Read more
The Future Seeds facility will not only safeguard tropical crop biodiversity, but also serve as a living laboratory for some of the world’s most advanced agricultural technologies.
World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia Read more
A new kind of milk will soon hit US shelves, but it isn’t some plant-based product designed to resemble dairy milk. Instead, it is made from whey proteins produced by microflora engineered.
New animal-free dairy milk set to finally hit U.S. retail shelves Read more
Price is the second most important factor in purchasing a plant-based product so the price of these products needs to drop for them to gain wider market share, as VegNews states.
Plant-based meat will be more affordable than animal meat sooner than expected Read more
Over 1 million students in grades K-12 will now have plant-based lunch options at school on Fridays.
NYC public schools initiate ‘Vegan Fridays’ Read more
LED-illuminated nets reduce #bycatch of sharks and skates by an incredible 95 percent while maintaining catch rates of target species, according to a new study.
Lighted fishing nets dramatically reduce bycatch while making fishing more efficient Read more
Sainsbury’s in the U.K., Lidl in the Netherlands, and the Dutch retailer Alhold Delhaize were among the companies saying they would move away from stocking Brazilian beef.
European supermarkets discontinue selling Brazilian beef to protect the Amazon Read more
Forty countries now have best-practice trans fat elimination policies in effect, protecting 1.4 billion people from this deadly food compound, according to new WHO report.
Milan is the world’s first major city to enforce a citywide food waste policy, relying on the wide-ranging cooperation of public agencies, food banks, charities, NGOs, universities, and private businesses.
Milan enacts groundbreaking strategy to cut food waste in half Read more
