Since launching at REAP2020, Xampla has received a £6 million seed investment to commercialise its first plant-based plastic product, microcapsules. The product provides a biodegradable alternative to the single use plastics which are currently used in the fragrance industry.
Disruptive technologies and innovations that increase supply chain efficiency proved attractive to investors during the pandemic
Insect protein provides a sustainable alternative to soy. Cambridge-based Better Origin has raised $3m to fund the development of its product, X1, an AI enabled insect mini-farm.
X1 fits inside a shipping container and according to Better Origin, it is the world’s first autonomous insect mini-farm.
Productivity, Growth, Nature – farmers are talking about how to maximise the first without compromising the latter.
“This feels like a tipping point”, says Chris Brown, Senior Director of Sustainable Supply Chains at ASDA.
The world’s first ‘activated air’ seed sterilisation system, Aurora Z10, provides a dry alternative to chemical treatment or washing.
Activated air, electrolysed water, free radicals – are among the innovations for food processing and for cleaning fresh produce and seeds to be revealed at the event 19th Jan.
The Willand Intelligent Livestock System offers the potential for methane and carbon capture.
Provoked by “artefacts from the future” we will be looking ahead to alternative future scenarios.
Using microbes to convert carbon dioxide from industrial emissions into a new type of single-cell protein called Proton, Deep Branch has developed a low carbon animal feed with a nutritional profile that is comparable with fishmeal, the gold-standard protein source in aquafeed. The company has secured €2.5 million of EIC Accelerator funding to build a new facility at the Netherlands-based Brightlands Chemelot Campus.
To understand which flowers are important for bees, scientists from the Earlham Institute (EI), with the University of East Anglia (UEA), have developed a new method to rapidly identify the sources of bee pollen.
Instead of buying cheap imported animal products with a big carbon footprint, we’re encouraging the purchase of UK produced, farm quality assured produce, Simon Doherty of BVA explains the One Health approach