NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE October 2025 97 Cefetra, one of the leaders in agricultural supply chains, and BioMar, a global producer of aquaculture feed, have formed a new partnership to reduce emissions from key vegetable-based ingredients in aquaculture diets. As the world’s population grows, the need for efficient and responsible food production continues to rise. In 2022, aquaculture surpassed capture fisheries for the first time, contributing 51 percent of the total global output of aquatic animals. While aquaculture already has one of the lowest feed conversion ratios in animal farming, more than 80 percent of fish emissions are linked to feed and raw material sourcing. Reducing these emissions and improving supply chain resilience is therefore a shared challenge for the sector. By combining expertise from agriculture and aquaculture, the companies’ partnership aims to address this challenge head-on. The collaboration focuses on cutting emissions at the source, supporting farmers in the transition to regenerative practices, and strengthening the link between crop production and fish farming. The initiative, starting in the UK, targets the carbon footprint of vegetable-based feed ingredients such as wheat, which form an essential part of fish diets. Through Cefetra Ecosystem Services, launched in 2023 in partnership with Soil Capital, UK farmers are supported in adopting practices that improve soil health and deliver verified carbon removals. Read more>> The CRAFT Consortium, consisting of RespectFarms, Wageningen University & Research, Mosa Meat, Aleph Farms, Multus, Kipster, and Royal Kuijpers, started designing and building the world’s first cultivated meat farm, paving the way for commercialisation. Co-funded by EIT Food, the project has been awarded the first €2 million of a €4 million grant request. This landmark initiative is expected to enable farmers to diversify their businesses with cultivated meat technology—reducing water consumption by 78%, land use by 95%, and societal cost by 56%. “It is important for food innovations to stay as close as possible to primary food production, making use of local resources and waste streams,” says René Wijffels, Professor at Wageningen University, Bioprocess Engineering. “This represents the first effort globally to merge cellular and traditional farming and promises to deliver consumers the best of both worlds: the unrivalled experience of real meat, through products produced and sold locally. The project will deliver a business model that is fundamentally new on one hand and centuries old on the other, and will add new perspective, also for farmers, to agriculture as we know it. Mosa Meat has been part of this development from the get-go and we are more than happy to support the project with our knowledge and experience across the various steps of this revolutionary technology,” remarks Peter Verstrate, Co-founder and COO at Mosa Meat BV. Read more>> BioMar and Cefetra partner for climate friendly aquaculture World’s first cultivated meat farm receives €2m support Photo: BioMar
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