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Hy-Vee Flashfood app

Hy-Vee launches waste reduction app pilot program

Through the partnership, Hy-Vee customers can now purchase high-quality food items at a reduced price.
February 5, 2019
Hy-Vee, West Des Moines, Iowa, launched Flashfood, what is said to be the first and only mobile app that partners with grocers to help reduce food waste by allowing shoppers to browse and purchase food items approaching their “best before” date at significantly reduced prices.
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Report reveals Top 10 states for LEED green building in 2018

The Top 10 states for LEED are home to 128 million Americans, and together, include more than 468 million gross square feet of LEED-certified space.
February 4, 2019
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Washington, D.C., released its annual list of Top 10 states for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
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Nestlé co-founds Future Food Initiative to advance science related to food trends, sustainability

The Future Food Initiative brings together Swiss academic and industrial partners leading in nutritional science and food technology.
February 4, 2019
Nestlé USA, Arlington, Va., launched the Future Food Initiative, a joint research program between Swiss universities and industrial partners that will support Nestlé in the development of trend-based, nutritious and sustainable food and beverage products.
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Study shows France to be the world's most food sustainable country

China, the United States and Britain failed to make the Top 20 of 67 nations, which were graded on food waste, sustainable agriculture and health and nutrition.
February 1, 2019
France's aggressive measures to tackle food waste, promote healthy lifestyles and adopt eco-farming techniques helped it rank the world’s most food sustainable country for the second year in a row, according to an index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit, UK, and the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation, Italy.
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Rabobank unveils food tech, agtech startups

FoodBytes! San Francisco 2019 is a competition and networking platform for innovative food, food tech and agtech entrepreneurs.
January 31, 2019
FoodBytes! by Rabobank, New York, unveiled the 15 startups selected for FoodBytes! San Francisco 2019.
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DelFrescoPure, CubicFarms partner to create vertical farming growing machine

The LivingCube system boasts 12 mechanized growing, germination and irrigation machines, each built inside proprietary insulated 40-foot stainless-steel growing chambers.
January 30, 2019
DelFrescoPure, Canada, partnered with and CubicFarms, Canada, to develop LivingCube, a system of automated vertical farming growing machines that continuously produce living lettuce, living basil and micro-greens year-round.
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Report reveals innovative sustainable agriculture measures from tech startups

The program was designed to train and invest in food and agriculture startups that are expanding access to sustainable, healthy and accessible agricultural goods.
January 30, 2019
Village Capital, a Washington, D.C.-based manager of an agriculture accelerator program, and QBE North America, a New York-based integrated specialist insurer, released a report on entrepreneurs innovating around sustainable food and agriculture practices.
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Report: Environmental, economic factors driving change in food processing technology

Natural resources, tighter regulations and heavier taxes to protect the environment, as well as ways to minimize waste and save energy are environmental concerns.
January 29, 2019
Environmental and economic factors are having a significant impact on the global food and beverage processing market, according to a study released by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, Reston, Va.
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