Hy-Vee, West Des Moines, Iowa, launched Flashfood, what is said to be the first and only mobile app that partners with grocers to help reduce food waste by allowing shoppers to browse and purchase food items approaching their “best before” date at significantly reduced prices.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Washington, D.C., released its annual list of Top 10 states for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).

Nestlé USA, Arlington, Va., launched the Future Food Initiative, a joint research program between Swiss universities and industrial partners that will support Nestlé in the development of trend-based, nutritious and sustainable food and beverage products.

France's aggressive measures to tackle food waste, promote healthy lifestyles and adopt eco-farming techniques helped it rank the world’s most food sustainable country for the second year in a row, according to an index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit, UK, and the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation, Italy.

World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, D.C., opened the Better Buying Lab, a new initiative focused on researching and catalyzing action that enables consumers to buy more sustainable foods.

FoodBytes! by Rabobank, New York, unveiled the 15 startups selected for FoodBytes! San Francisco 2019.

DelFrescoPure, Canada, partnered with and CubicFarms, Canada, to develop LivingCube, a system of automated vertical farming growing machines that continuously produce living lettuce, living basil and micro-greens year-round.

Village Capital, a Washington, D.C.-based manager of an agriculture accelerator program, and QBE North America, a New York-based integrated specialist insurer, released a report on entrepreneurs innovating around sustainable food and agriculture practices.

Environmental and economic factors are having a significant impact on the global food and beverage processing market, according to a study released by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, Reston, Va.

Carrefour, France, announced plans to work with MiiMOSA Transition, a crowdfunding platform.