Food Politics

While “business as usual” remains a thing of the past (at least for now), some businesses are re-imagining their product and service offerings. Here’s a roundup of restaurants transforming to meet the changing demands during the global crisis.

Individually we make a choice. Together we make a difference. Whenever you buy a product with the Fair Trade Certified™ seal, farmers, workers, and fishermen earn extra money to uplift their communities.

Third edition of Feeding Ourselves Thirsty reveals improved scores in water management practices from industry giants such as Mars, Incorporated and Unilever, but finds insufficient corporate action overall in an increasingly water-stressed world.

Abigail Stevenson, Mars Global Food Safety Center Director, on why food safety is a critical requirement for food security, and how Mars is proudly taking action to enable safe food for all on #WorldFoodDay and every day.

Fair Trade USA® reports significant growth in its produce category, evidenced by a 30 percent increase in sales volume in 2018. Growth in the produce category included the introduction of 8 new Fair Trade Certified™ products.

Smithfield Foods' supply chain includes numerous farms across the United States and Europe, and it has customers in 44 countries. Smithfield is in a unique position to have a broad sustainability impact and it says it’s making progress on this front.

Fair Trade USA announces another round of historic commitments made by leading retailers Albertsons, Kroger, and Williams Sonoma in support of sustainable coffee sourcing and improved farmer livelihoods. Coffee farmers around the world have been struggling with record low C-Market prices for the last year, and the Sustainable Coffee Challenge is one way that the coffee industry is taking action to bring about positive change.

Smithfield "was the first major protein company to set an ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal to reduce emissions 25 percent by 2025, which is the equivalent of removing 900,000 cars from our roads," company management highlights.

Hormel Foods Corporation announced the launch of the Happy Little Plants™ brand, a new plant-forward, protein portfolio created as part of the company’s first project under its Cultivated Foods umbrella.

This summer we launched Version 2.0 of the General Mills Regenerative Agriculture Self-Assessment, a user-friendly tool for farmers to understand alignment between their agricultural practices and the principles of regenerative agriculture.