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Study reveals more than half of CPG growth is from sustainability-marketed products

The research found that sustainability-marketed products delivered 50.1% of market growth from 2013-2018 while representing 16.6% of the CPG market in dollar sales in 2018.
November 7, 2019
NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB), New York, and IRI, Chicago, launched a new Sustainable Market Share Index, an in-depth analysis of consumer purchases of products marketed for their sustainable attributes.
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Scientists warn about current, impending, potential damage on Earth

With the exception of stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, since 1992, “humanity has failed to make sufficient progress in generally solving these foreseen environmental challenges, and alarmingly, most of them are getting far worse,” the study says.
November 7, 2019
Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Mass., and more than 1,700 independent scientists penned the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” which called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided.”
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Sysco announces 2019 corporate social responsibility report

Sysco’s CSR strategy focuses on three key areas—people, products and planet.
November 6, 2019
Sysco Corp., Houston, Texas, published its 2019 corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, documenting the company’s progress toward the 2025 goals established in 2018.
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Blockchain spend in world agriculture market expected to record CAGR of 48.8%

What's more is, blockchain spend is projected to increase from $524.8 million in 2019 to $8,489 million by 2025
November 1, 2019
Blockchain spend in the agriculture industry increased at 129.3% during 2018 to reach $258 million, and is expected to record a CAGR of 48.8%, increasing from $524.8 million in 2019 to $8,489 million by 2025, according to a report produced by Research and Markets, Ireland.
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Tyson Foods, Proforest partner to conduct deforestation risk assessment

The assessment will help identify if there is risk in the company’s sourcing origins, focusing on commodities such as cattle, palm oil, soy, timber, pulp and paper.
October 29, 2019
Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., partnered with Proforest, UK, to conduct a deforestation risk assessment across its global agriculture supply chain.
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Smithfield Foods, Dominion Energy to become largest U.S. renewable natural gas supplier

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods formed Align RNG in November 2018, committing $250 million over 10 years to capture methane from Smithfield’s company-owned and contract hog farms and convert it into clean RNG.
October 23, 2019
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., and Dominion Energy, Richmond, Va., are doubling their investment in renewable natural gas (RNG) projects across the United States to $500 million through 2028.
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J. R. Simplot, Yield10 Bioscience partner to evaluate production of high-yielding, sustainable potato crop

In studies performed by Yield10 in greenhouse or field tests, these traits have shown a range of promising activities such as good agronomic performance, increased photosynthesis, increased seed yield and/or increased biomass production.
October 23, 2019
J. R. Simplot Co., Boise, Idaho, signed a research agreement with Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., Woburn, Mass., to evaluate three novel yield traits in potato.
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