The winners of the 2024 Sustainable Food Awards (https://www.sfawards.com/previous-awards/) were announced at a dedicated awards reception in Amsterdam last week. UK companies received four of the eight international awards, including two by a pioneer with African superfood ingredients.
The judging panel has selected the following winners…
New Sustainable Product: Aduna Superfoods (UK) is gold winner with its Superfood Blends. Launched in October 2023, the product range is the world’s first FairWild-certified superfood range. They contain organic baobab, moringa, turmeric, hibiscus and wheatgrass.
Hermann.Bio Fungi Pad (Austria) is silver winner. The innovation involves growing king oyster mushrooms on fungi pads directly at end-user locations.
Sustainable Ingredient: Pact Coffee (UK) is gold winner with Cenicafé 1, a variety of Arabica coffee that is resistant to disease and pests. Coffee farmers therefore do not have to deforest or move to higher altitudes to grow coffee.
Nature Bio Foods (India) gets silver for its Kotwa Biodynamic Rice; the Demeter and Faitrade certified rice is produced by smallholders and encourages biodiversity.
Sustainable Packaging: PA Consulting (UK) and PulPac get gold for the world’s first Dry Molded Fiber Bottle. Launched in 2023, the innovation involves utilising Dry Molded Fiber technology to develop bottles that minimise the use of plastics in food, drink, and related industries.
Driscoll’s (USA) EMEA gets silver for its Carton Punnets, which use 94% less plastic to package berries.
Sustainability Pioneer: Pachamama Coffee Farmers (USA) is gold winner. It receives recognition for its unique business model that produces sustainable coffee whilst having a positive impact. It is the only coffee roaster in North American that is 100% owned and governed by thousands of smallholder farmers in Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Ethiopia.
Aduna Superfoods (UK) is the silver winner. The Certified B Corp has set up ethical supply chains for under-utilised natural ingredients from Africa.
The 2024 Sustainable Food Awards reception was hosted at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre on 4th July. The event was co-hosted alongside the European edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit, 4-5th July.