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    This week’s standout figures span falling fruit and veg consumption among UK adults and children, a worrying forecast for global food production, a call to investors to support sustainable food systems and the value in policy makers embracing the circular…

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    This week’s standout figures highlight the rise in megafarms across Europe and how chicken sales are up for a controversial meat company. There is also promising new research on reducing methane from dairy farms as well as an exposé on…

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    This week’s percentage-heavy headline figures span investment in renewable power by a drinks brand, a reduction in methane emissions by a food and drink giant, the GHG-reducing potential of biochar, and a lack of data on ESG-focused businesses by local…

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    This week’s standout figures show hundreds of farms folding in the first quarter of 2025, an open-source map of fishmeal factories around the world, the new multi-million pound fund to reduce cow burps and a ‘clean’ plant-based burger aimed at…

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    This week’s headline figures feature guaranteed access to plant-based meals for Spanish school children, a record number of chefs graduating from Baxter Storey’s Chef Academy, and warnings over the EU’s unsustainable consumption of seafood and the huge cost of extreme…

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    This week’s standout figures show Scotland’s organic farming sector ploughing ahead, coffee shops falling behind on efforts to reduce methane, positive news regarding EU companies’ attitudes toward climate policy, and a controversial green nudge to help change consumption patterns.

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    This week’s striking stats include a stark illustration of the scale of UK ‘megafarms’, a few million glasses raised to Carlsberg’s water stewardship efforts, a new regenerative barley partnership between Wildfarmed and beer brand Jubel, and fresh funding for farmers…

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    This week’s eye-catching figures feature precision fermentation funding, coffee prices, a (big) vertical farm and the logic behind net-zero. 3x. Companies working on precision fermentation, which uses organisms such as yeast to develop ingredients bringing the familiar flavour and texture…

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    This week’s eye-catching figures feature a miniscule uplift in government funding for free school meals, a waste reduction campaign by St Austell Brewery, lobbying of government departments by food businesses, and an incentive for the people of Cardiff to recycle…

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    This week’s standout figures include hundreds of potential job cuts at Defra, a hefty gap in funding the transition to regenerative farming systems, the estimated tonnage of eggshells produced globally each year and the debate over how to measure emissions…