Cultivated
Why Singapore’s World-First Cultivated Beef and Duck Approvals Matter
In April, French startup Parima secured the world’s first-ever approval to sell cultivated duck. Then, earlier this month, the Singapore Food Agency granted Aleph Farms the first regulatory approval of cultivated beef. These latest green lights represent meaningful, necessary steps on the road to cultivated meat commercialisation. Here’s why.
Explore the 2026 State of the Industry reports
The State of the Industry report series is GFI's annual deep dive into the rapidly evolving alternative protein landscape, across the cultivated, plant-based, and fermentation sectors. The latest edition of this flagship series provides a global overview of industry progress, synthesising company landscapes and product trends, sales data, scientific advancements, and public investment and regulatory updates that are helping shape a more secure, sustainable, and just food system.
Global patent data reveals China’s years-long commitment to scaling up cultivated meat
Earlier this year, China reaffirmed protein diversification as a central tenet of its national food strategy. Now, analysis by GFI has shined the spotlight on another indicator of China’s long-term commitment to food security: its assertive pursuit of global cultivated meat patents.
BREAKING: Regulators approve cultivated meat sales in Australia
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) officially announced Australia’s first-ever approval of a cultivated meat product, opening up a potentially lucrative new market for the cellular agriculture sector and setting an important precedent for global regulators.
Explore the 2024 State of the Industry reports
Our State of the Industry reports are an annual deep dive into the global alt protein sector. The latest edition of the series compiles business developments, policy updates, and scientific breakthroughs from 2024 that are advancing the field and shaping a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative.
2023 APAC State of the Industry Report
Our inaugural report on the alternative proteins sector in APAC with a deep-dive into public and private funding, the R&D ecosystem, and sector progress from ideation to product commercialisation and market growth.
Guest Column: Keeping Up with the Crustaceans
This article was written by Dr. Danai Georgiadou, a scientist from A*STAR’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI). She also contributes to CRISP Meats, a multi-institutional research programme led by A*STAR to address challenges faced by the industry, and accelerate the development and production of cultivated meat and seafood through public-private partnerships.
Cell line development and utilisation trends in the cultivated meat industry
A comprehensive report on the utilisation and advancement of cell lines in the cultivated meat industry, including practical measures for meeting future demands for cell lines and characterisation requirements, as well as regulatory concerns.
Aligning cultivated food nomenclature across APAC
An overview of various cultivated food nomenclature in alt protein and GFI's work in determining cultivated as a growing consensus in the industry along with nomenclature alignment in APAC through the nomenclature MOU.