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| 3D-printed food: A new frontier in personalized nutrition | Food Ingredients First |
| Advances in food printers provide opportunity for flavor, texture and nutritional content customization. Editor’s Note: | |
| Future Of Food: Is Contactless Delivery And Dining Real Or Just Hype? | Inc42 |
| Cloud kitchens and restaurants have to focus on safety and hygiene first, as that’s what the consumer will want. Editor’s Note: | |
| The death of Souplantation may have hit fans hard, but it was far from unexpected. Here’s why more buffet closures may be on their way. | Business Insider |
| The coronavirus pandemic has been devastating for restaurants across the board. Editor’s Note: Although the entire restaurant industry is suffering from the effects of the COVID crisis, buffets are proving to be the real losers. Here Irene Jiang argues that their decline had started long before the current pandemic began. | |
| Where’s the beef? Production shutdown leads to shortages | Associated Press |
| U.S. meat supplies are dwindling due to coronavirus-related production shutdowns. As a result, some stores like Costco and restaurants like Wendy’s are limiting sales. Editor’s Note: | |
| Climate Explained: How the climate impact of beef compares with plant-based alternatives | The Conversation |
| Both Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, two of the biggest players in the rapidly expanding meat alternatives market, claim their vegan burger patties (made primarily from a variety of plant proteins and oils) are 90% less climate polluting than a typical beef patty produced in the United States. Editor’s Note: | |
| America’s Missing Beef Opens the Door for Plant-Based Burgers | Bloomberg |
| Shortages may cause shoppers to embrace alternative proteins. Editor’s Note: | |
| Preventing Another Pandemic Might Be As Simple As Trying Alternative Meat | Forbes |
| In September 2019 — two months before the first reported case of the coronavirus — the World Health Organization published a report that said, “…there is a very real threat of a rapidly moving, highly lethal pandemic of a respiratory pathogen killing 50 to 80 million people and wiping out nearly 5 percent of the world’s economy… The world is not prepared.” Editor’s Note: | |
| NTU scientists develop sustainable way to extract chitin from prawn shells by fermenting it with fruit waste | Nanyang Technological University |
| Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a green way to create chitin, by using two forms of food waste – prawn shells and discarded fruit – and fermenting them. Editor’s Note: | |
| Innovation is key to a more sustainable global agriculture | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| “The combined challenge of rising global hunger and the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that innovation and the application of science and technology have always been and must continue to be the cornerstone or the foundation of agriculture,” said Beth Bechdol, newly appointed Deputy Director General at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Editor’s Note: | |
| Alternative meat is having a moment. Real meat may be done sooner thank you think. | Mashable |
| Picture two industries. One is increasingly associated in the consumer’s mind with dirt and disease. Not only is much of its product pumped full of antibiotics and covered in fecal matter, not only does it come with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, but now its workers are testing positive for coronavirus in droves, and its supply chain is in pain. Editor’s Note: Our meat-eating habits have been changing rapidly in recent times. Chris Taylor predicts that the end of real meat may be sooner than we think given current momentum. | |
| Researchers predict agri-food technology to grow post-COVID-19 | Western Producer |
| A researcher at the University of Guelph says the COVID-19 pandemic will spark agility — particularly related to technology — in agriculture. Editor’s Note: | |
| Rotting food. Hungry masses. Chaotic supply chains. Coronavirus upends the US food system | Los Angeles Times |
| LOS ANGELES — Near downtown Los Angeles, a meat processing plant ramped up production even as it worked to keep frontline employees separated from one another. In Salinas, Calif., a lettuce grower hustled to redirect supply after being forced to plow under unused crops. Editor’s Note: | |
| Investing in the Future of Food: Aloha CEO shares tips for securing shelf space, courting Trade Joe’s | Food Navigator USA |
| The radio silence that emerging brands sometimes experience when reaching out to retail buyers for the first time can feel daunting and demoralizing, but Brad Charron, the CEO of the plant-based bar and beverage brand Aloha, advises entrepreneurs not to take it personally and not to give up. Editor’s Note: | |
| Coronavirus Risks Worsening a Food Crisis in the Sahel and West Africa | Chatham House |
| The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the Sahel and West Africa at a time when the region is already under severe pressure from violent insecurity and the effects of climate change on its land, food and water resources. Editor’s Note: | |
| What to Do With 50 Pounds of Potatoes? The Quandaries of Bulk Buying | New York Times |
| The pandemic has turned many cooks into big-volume shoppers, and left them puzzling out how to manage a bursting pantry of ingredients. Editor’s Note: | |
| Actions now can curb food systems fallout from COVID-19 | Nature |
| The greater risk for food insecurity and social unrest comes not from the supply, but from the demand side. The measures taken to safeguard public health are prompting an unusually large and rapid economic contraction. Unprecedented numbers of people are losing their jobs, businesses and livelihoods. As COVID-19 begins to impact low- and middle-income economies, the rise in poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition will be serious. Editor’s Note: | |
| SHG members provide 1.5 crore meals to needy & helpless people during lockdown in Odisha | Press Trust of India |
| As part of efforts to provide food security to the helpless people, members of Mission Shakti SHGs have provided 2.05 lakh meals to Aahar Kendras, subsidized food centres in municipal areas, they said. Editor’s Note: | |
| As hunger swells, food stamps become partisan flashpoint | New York Times |
| As a padlocked economy leaves millions of Americans without paychecks, lines outside food banks have stretched for miles, prompting some of the overwhelmed charities to seek help from the National Guard. Editor’s Note: | |
| Farming during pandemic produces challenges | Santa Cruz Sentinel |
| WATSONVILLE — Flanked by rows of strawberry beds, Apolinar Yerena stood in the center of his 11-acre Watsonville farm, reflecting on the pandemic threatening its future. “I’ve been farming for 40 years,” said the 68-year-old owner of Yerena Farms. “This is the worst thing that has happened.” Editor’s Note: It has been widely noted that farmers have been particularly hard hit by the current pandemic. Jesse Kathan discusses the plight of American farmers and notes how they are dealing with it in this report from Watsonville, the strawberry capital of the world. | |
| Loblaw launches next-day meal-kit delivery service ahead of schedule as shoppers migrate online | The Logic |
| As online grocery shopping booms in Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Loblaw has expedited the launch of a next-day meal-kit delivery service. Editor’s Note: | |
| Building Food Security During The Pandemic | Project Syndicate |
| Every year, some nine million people worldwide – equivalent to the population of Austria – die of hunger or hunger-related diseases. That is tragic enough, but COVID-19’s disruption of food supply chains risks doubling this number in 2020. Editor’s Note: | |
| In the Absence of Federal Action, US States Scramble to Address Hunger Crisis | Truthout |
| As the COVID-19 crisis intensifies, a Depression-era double-whammy food crisis has emerged. Editor’s Note: | |
| Delhi’s Food Scheme for the Poor is Better on Paper than on the Ground | The Wire |
| New Delhi: A month ago, on April 7, Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde asked public interest lawyer Prashant Bhushan: “If they are being provided meals, then why do they need money for meals?” Editor’s Note: | |
| Turkey’s food supply not threatened by COVID-19 pandemic, UN says | Anadolu |
| Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Turkey is not expected to face any major problems in its short- or mid-term food supply or food security, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. Editor’s Note: | |
| ASEAN Intervenes to Fight Death Spiral of Food Export Restrictions | Voice of America |
| Few images conjure the 1930s Depression like people standing in soup lines while farmers dump food they can’t sell. That is a tragedy Southeast Asia is fighting to avoid, though it is starting to happen in pockets around the world in the midst of COVID-19. Editor’s Note: | |
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