The Certified Organic Industry: What’s Changing in 2020?
‘Organic’ became even bigger business in 2020, with produce sales increasing by as much as 50 per cent in some parts of the world on the back of the COVID-19…
Back to Better: January opening for HISBE’s Covid-delayed second store
Brighton (UK)-based ‘rebel supermarket’ HISBE says it will now open its second store early next year.
OPTA EU publishes Farm to Fork action plan to reach 25% organic in 2030
The Commission has presented in spring 2020 visionary Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, warmly welcomed by the Organic Trade and Processing Association Europe (OPTA). Especially the target for 25%…
Is organic more local than local?
A new report by internationally renowned ecological thinker Gunnar Rundgren helps answer a very timely question – ‘is organic more local than local?’ Johan Cejie has been looking at the…
Branching out: Pop-up shop in a tree spreads Organic September message
To celebrate this year’s Organic September promotion, the Organic Trade Board created the UK’s first pop-up shop in a tree near an urban London farm.
Organic Trade Association congratulates Pipeline Foods on completion of Organic Fraud Prevention Solutions
Association also expands its benchmark program to non-members Pipeline Food’s supply chain is complex and global. It stretches from the organic grains farmer in Minnesota to the organic soybean and…
What we learnt in lockdown: Article collection documents how Bristol’s local food scene responded to Covid
The Community Farm, a cornerstone of the UK city Bristol’s local food and farming scene, has curated Lessons From Lockdown, a collection of 15 articles that describe how the 2020…
UK organic exports face ‘outright ban’ if equivalence is not agreed in Brexit deal
More than 30 organisations representing the UK organic food and drink sector have written to Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost, and the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, to express…
Test for gene-edited GM crop is milestone for consumer protection, NGOs declare
The first open source detection test for a gene-edited crop represents a “milestone” for EU consumer and business protection, says a consortium of NGOs, led by Greenpeace EU
Oatly faces boycotts after ‘Trump-linked’ Blackstone takes stake in $2bn business
Leading plant-based milk brand Oatly is facing boycotts from previously loyal customers after it sold a 10% stake in the business to a consortium led by Blackstone, a US private…
