The year in food: These trends will help define 2024
- Media Manager
- Dec 14, 2023
- 1 min read
GreenBiz
Written By: Theresa Lieb
Published: December 14th, 2023
These three topics were top of mind in 2023 for sustainable food professionals — and will move the field forward in the year ahead.
As we head into the final weeks of 2023, it is time to reflect on the big topics that sustainability professionals working on food and agriculture grappled with and advanced over the year — and which will help define the challenges ahead in 2024.
The big buckets such as regenerative agriculture, sustainable diets and circularity we address in GreenBiz’s reporting and events don’t change quickly because those are issues that will require many years of continued work. But the cross-cutting themes within those buckets are dynamic, responding to economic trends, sustainability lessons learned and other developments.
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