Litera Meat obtains license to export to South Korea
South Korea is now added to the list of more than 50 countries to where Litera Meat exports its products.
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HKScan aiming at carbon-neutral food production
HKScan has set the goal of carbon neutrality of its own industrial production by the end of 2025 and carbon neutrality of the entire food chain from farms to consumers by the end of 2040 at the latest.
HKScan will make all its packaging recyclable, reducing millions of kilos of plastic
HKScan will renew its packaging to be even more responsible: all packaging will be recyclable by the end of 2025 at the latest.
Hackathon dives deep into AgroFood Ecosystem® data
The goal is to make the meat production chain more transparent for consumers by transforming HKScan’s data into a more user-friendly format.
Smithfield Foods to become carbon negative by 2030
The company will go beyond carbon neutrality to effectively remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, taking initiatives on its farms, processing plants, and in transportation.
Sustainable pork production in the age of climate change
The pig industry needs to counteract concerns about climate change and provide evidence we are making efforts to minimize our environmental footprint.
Colombia commits to sustainable pig farming using biogas
The Ministry of Environment and Porkcolombia present the "Biogas Guide for the Colombian Pig Industry."
Spain: Nitrogen emission calculator for pig manure
Proper manure management is crucial, and farmers are the ones primarily responsible.
CPF embraces eco-efficiency concept for water management, ready to share water with farmers
CPF uses innovation to save water, recycle water, and share treated water with farmers, reducing their carbon footprint.
U.S. pork industry releases new sustainability report
Report and porkcares.org share successes and set stage for future improvement in the swine industry.
Rules to calculate and to migate the environmental performance of the red meat
The European Livestock and Meat Trades Union (UECBV) has developed a document with the aim of creating a comprehensive and harmonised scientific methodology that can be used by the industry stakeholders to calculate the product environmental footprint of red meat and to determine the impact of the red meat supply chain.
"CP Foods Coal Free by the year 2022" project
To celebrate World Environment Day on June 5, Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CP Foods) announced “CP Foods Coal Free by the year 2022” project to phasing out coal usage from all its operations in Thailand in response to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
EU: to facilitate a sustainable use of fertilisers for all farmers
The Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients (FaST) aims to facilitate a sustainable use of fertilisers for all farmers in the EU.
From greenhouse gas to carbon credits
Edwina Beveridge runs a mixed farming operation in New South Wales, Australia. At any given time, she has some 2,200 pigs on site - which adds up to a lot of methane. By investing in a methane digestion system, she now turns it into energy.
Insects oil
From the treatment of organical waste they obtain high caloric content compost and also insect maggots, rich in proteins, that can be used for animal feeding or to produce insects oils competing with fish oil and that can be used to obtain Omega’s 3, 6 and 7.
Sizing up livestock farming’s carbon footprint
A new and interactive tool released by FAO allows farmers, policy makers and scientists to calculate meat, milk and eggs production as well as greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock to make the sector more productive and more climate-friendly.