Bright Science & Technology Innovation Hub (Bright Science Hub), established by Royal DSM and Padang & Co., celebrated a milestone on 19 October as a resource partner of FoodInnovate, a multi-government agency led by Enterprise Singapore, a government agency that champions business development through innovation, establishing the country as a food and nutrition hub in Asia
Food & Commodity
Global poll shows 60% of global population worry about the safety of their food
First-ever, Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll shows a global food safety record with more than half of the world’s population – 60% of the world’s population – saying they are worried about the food they eat and 51% about the safety of the water they drink
Global grassroots organisations demand radical transformation of food systems to tackle the impacts of COVID-19
The COVID-19 food crisis is closely linked to economic, social, gender and environmental injustices of free-market neoliberalism, says a report launched by the largest international space of grassroots organisations and indigenous peoples working to eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition
Tentamus to further develop rapid screening methods for search of pathogens
Tentamus Agriparadigma Laboratory has said that it is further developing rapid screening methods for the search of pathogens such as Salmonella spp., Listeria spp. and monocytogenes
Innovation, technologies and behavioural change are vital to reducing food loss and waste
“Food loss and waste is a major challenge of our time,” said FAO director-general QU Dongyu, urging stronger partnerships, more public and private investment in training for smallholder farmers, technology and innovation to step up the fight against food loss and waste as “our planet is a small ship in the universe”