Hundreds of healthy pigs culled amid UK shortage of abattoir workers

Farmers warned that up to 120,000 animals face being slaughtered as they lack space to house them‘Fallen stock’: what happens now to the UK’s unwanted pigs?The slaughter of healthy pigs has begun on British farms, with farmers forced to kill animals to…

Stable raises $46.5M in Greycroft-led round to help businesses manage ‘volatile’ commodity prices

Stable, an insurtech aiming to help minimize a businesses’ risk due to volatile commodity prices, today announced it has raised $46.5 million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft. Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised […]

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta al forno – baked pasta with meatballs and mozzarella | A kitchen in Rome

A hearty family favourite whose comfort-giving properties cannot be diminished even by average mozzarellaDriving back after a few days by the sea, we passed a sign for a caseificio (dairy), a common sight in southern Lazio, as are buffaloes and swathes…

Five Seasons Ventures pulls in €180M fund to tackle human health and climate via FoodTech

FoodTech is booming in Europe and is growing exponentially. In 2020, €3 billion went into European FoodTech companies (State of European Tech Report, March 2021), and the pandemic has accelerated demand as consumers have shifted to grocery delivery. The industry has also been affected by the rise of direct-to-consumer food brands. Finally, the pandemic created […]

【ウェビナー参加募集】“食の主権”をコモンズによって取り戻す:フードイノヴェイションの未来像 第8回:サラ・ロヴェルシ(Future Food Institute創設者)

自分たちが食べるものを自らのコミュニティが選び、生産・流通するといった「食料主権」は、食の工業化に伴ってほとんどの人々が手放していった権利だ。食の循環がコミュニティの文化やネイバーフッドを醸成するだけでなく、地球環境にとって決定的なインパクトを与える時代に、リジェネラティヴな食のあり方をコモンズとして捉え、食の主権を再び自分たちの手に取り戻すことはいかにして可能なのか? Future Food Institute創設者のサラ・ロヴェルシをゲストに迎え…