Amsterdam is about to bring the protein industry into one room, and the timing feels useful. With the Future of Protein Production event approaching, early-bird registration closes Friday with just 42 passes remaining. But beyond the event itself, this week’s headlines point to some of the bigger questions likely to shape those conversations.
Funding is one of them. A new €30 million commitment is backing Nordic agrifood technologies on their journey from research to market, while in Australia, Joanne Tunna is warning that food biomanufacturing could lose momentum if promising projects cannot make it through the scale-up stage. The gap between a good idea and a viable business remains a difficult one to cross.
That challenge is also changing how the industry looks at resources. A new research project is turning its attention to overlooked proteins hidden in crop side streams, asking what value might still be sitting in materials that are usually left behind.
Then there is policy. Regulatory uncertainty has prompted a pause for a UK cultivated meat project, while a Dutch coalition is calling for €65 million in annual funding to help accelerate plant-based food development.
The science may start the story, but this week’s news is really about everything that has to happen after the breakthrough. 👇
