Cecilia McAleavey Oatly

Cecilia McAleavey (Oatly): “Our broken food system needs to change”

Cecilia McAleavey is a committed spokesperson for the plant-based revolution. She joined Oatly in the beginning of 2016, a science-based company which in 2019...
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Civil society, farmers and business organizations say it clear to the EU: don’t deregulate...

A large coalition of 162 civil society, farmers and business organisations calls on Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to ensure all...
Large caps land in the Spanish organic market

EU: New Ambitious Organic Action Plan

The European Commission today approved the European Organic Action Plan 2021-2027. The Plan has the ambition to contribute to the growth of the organic...
Free From Food Retail Expo: Rescheduled to 23-24 November 2021

Free From Food Retail Expo: Rescheduled to 23-24 November 2021

The organisers of the Free From Functional & Health Ingredients (FFFHI) and Free From Packaging (FFP) have confirmed that the Free From Food Retail...

Politicians and the EPO must take responsibility

On the day before the Administrative Council meeting at the European Patent Office (EPO), WeMove Europe, the Munich Environmental Institute and No Patents on...

No Patents on Seeds! – Prohibition on patenting conventional breeding is being circumvented

No Patents on Seeds! handed over last week a new report on patent applications for conventionally bred plants to the German Ministry of Justice...

Cooperation between US-EU becomes urgent for the further growth and developments of organic

Experts from Assoziation Ökologischer Lebensmittelhersteller (AÖL)1, Organic Processing and Trade Association Europe (OPTA)2, Organic Trade Association (OTA)3 and the Alliance for Organic Integrity (AOI)4...

NATRUE study: what attributes consumers look for in natural and organic cosmetics

During the last VIVANESS edition, which took place digitally between 17 and 19 February, Dr. Mark Smith (NATRUE’s Director General) and Dr. Bernhard Irrgang...
Farm to Fork Patatas Ecológicas

Farm to Fork: the role of organic and digital training activities to reach the...

In May 2020, the European Commission published the Farm to Fork strategy as a key element of the European Green Deal (new EU growth...

BIOFACH / VIVANESS eSPECIAL: 13.800 registered participants from 136 countries

The organic food and natural and organic personal care products community came together for their annual sector gathering on 17-19 February 2021. This year’s...