Policy
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.
JUST IN: Major report unveils China’s protein playbook—a roadmap for other nations
Moments ago, Systemiq, the systems change company, published an important new report modelling exactly how China’s innovation-to-mass-adoption playbook could fundamentally reimagine global meat production over the coming decades.
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.
Korea overtakes Singapore as APAC’s cultivated meat startup epicentre + four other takeaways from GFI’s new reports
The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived: the latest editions of GFI’s annual reports on the State of the Industry and Global Policy were just published!
An Exclusive Look Inside China’s “New Proteins” Sector
A team of GFI APAC staffers recently travelled across China to see with our own eyes what the country’s major biomanufacturing push means for Singapore and the future of Asia’s protein supply. What we saw only further solidified our confidence that China will play a decisive role in the long-term success of the future-food sector.
GFI APAC’s 2025 Report Card + 6 Things to Watch in 2026
A mere 12 months ago, our experts published a look ahead at 2025 and outlined five reasons to be hopeful about APAC’s alternative protein sector, based on changes we expected to see over the course of the year. So how’d we do?
For sustainable foods, “finance really is the enabler,” says Singapore environmental minister
Just hours ago, a series of high-profile sessions focused on scaling up sustainable foods concluded at COP30—the United Nations Climate Change Conference—in Belém, Brazil, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are working through the night to forge consensus on which climate fixes to fund.
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.