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While China has transformed its economy over recent decades, challenges such as climate change and land degradation have continued to impact its agriculture...

Highlights: Pulse proteins provide a promising alternative to conventional animal proteins Pretreatment techniques have potential to improve pulse protein extraction efficiency Pulse proteins...

Harvested food carries a fraction of the nitrogen applied through fertilization; the remainder is typically lost into the environment, impairing planetary sustainability. Using a global agriculture model that integrates...

Alternative protein sources for human food, as well as for terrestrial and aquatic animal feed, are increasingly commercially available. These products have considerable potential for sustainably...

The Good Food Institute describes government regulation of alternative proteins (including plant-based, cultivated and fermentation-derived foods) in several countries around the world (including China, Singapore...

This report examines financial investment in protein production in sub-Saharan Africa. It begins from the position that investors play an important role in shaping the development of diets and food systems...

Protein has a singularly prominent place in discussions about food. It symbolises fitness, strength and masculinity, motherhood and care. It is the preferred macronutrient of affluence and education...

Maize, along with wheat and rice, provides around 30% of food calories to more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing countries. These statistics declare that maize...

Highlights Various plant-based proteins have been tested for structuring meat analogues. Cysteine-rich proteins are preferred to build fibrous structures via crosslinking. Efficiency...