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The UK government has announced its Digital & Technology Sector Plan as part of its broader Industrial Strategy, including an £184m Engineering Biology Scale-up Infrastructure Programme to build and upgrade facilities.

Bühler Group has inaugurated a new Milling Academy at its headquarters, a cutting-edge facility designed to enhance training for food and feed millers.

Switzerland-based Harvest Group has committed $500 million to convert up to 300,000 hectares of pastureland into productive agricultural land across rural Kazakhstan.

French food-tech start-up Fungu’it has secured €4 million in funding to accelerate industrial-scale production of its natural flavourings made from agricultural by-products.

Dole UK has partnered with AgriSound, a UK-based agri-tech firm specialising in pollination monitoring, to launch a pilot study aimed at improving fruit production through advanced pollination insights.

John Lancaster, head of EMEA and Food Consultancy at Stone X, told FoodBev how the new EU/UK trade deal will impact the dairy industry and commodity pricing.

Nestlé’s Institute of Agricultural Sciences has entered into research collaborations to explore the potential environmental benefits and scalability of innovative aquaculture approaches.

Polysense, a Belgian technology start-up specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) for the food sector, has successfully raised €2 million in seed funding to enhance its innovative solutions aimed at reducing waste and improving efficiency in food production processes.

A new study launched by the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (EARA), funded by EIT Food, has found that farmers can produce ‘significantly more food for less’ by transitioning to regenerative practices.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has warned that several major crops, including wheat and coffee, could lose half their optimally suitable land by 2100.

Sandra Perletti, global head of food and beverage at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, believes change is still possible – but it all starts with a shift in mindset.

Finnish biotech company Volare has announced the successful closing of a €26 million funding round aimed at establishing what it claims will be the world's most energy-efficient protein production facility.