Report 2025
Scientific sovereignty
With COP30 in the Amazon, Brazil was at the center of a crucial conversation: how to build a safer, more sustainable, and resilient future. But the deeper question is another: what role does Brazil want to play in this transition?
For a safer, fairer and more sustainable food system
We’re helping Brazil lead the global alternative protein industry. Join the leading experts and entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of food.
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Our Mission
Accelerate the development of innovative proteins
The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the transformation of the current food system. Our international network develops alternative proteins to meet climate and food security goals.
What are alternative proteins?
Alternative proteins are new sources of protein that serve as an alternative to animal proteins. Extracted from plants, produced through fermentation or with cultured cells, they offer a way to reduce the environmental impacts of our food system, which currently depends on the intensive and unsustainable production of meat, eggs, milk and dairy products.
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Explore our free digital courses
The Science of Alternative Proteins
It presents the biological and chemical processes used to produce plant-based meat, obtained through fermentation and cultivated meat, as well as the environmental and economic factors.
9 videos
3 hours long.
1 Certificate
Advanced Topics in Alternative Proteins
Deepen your technical knowledge in specific areas of alternative protein production. Explore emerging technologies, process optimization and innovations.
4 videos
2 hours long.
5 Certificates
Basic concepts of innovation in alternative proteins
Understand the alternative protein innovation ecosystem and its opportunities, global trends, regulatory aspects and business models.
5 videos
1,5 hours long.
6 Certificates
Discover our initiatives
Community
Global Coalition for Alternative Proteins
Join our community and become part of a network with exclusive access to forums, studies, and opportunities.
Industry
Strategies for the plant-based market
Learn what people think about food and what cultural tensions shape their choices at the table.
Industry
Alternative protein market
Access the most up-to-date data on markets for products made from plants, grown from cells, or obtained through fermentation.
Sustainability
Global challenges and ESG
Understand why the inclusion of plant-based, fermented, and cell-cultured products is a crucial part of the solution to a global climate challenge.
Biomes Program
Funding for research into the development of ingredients, derived from native species of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes, for use in plant-based products.
Technological Showcase
Projects that are redefining the limits of science, demonstrating technological solutions with the potential to transform the food system of the future.
LAMPADA
Explore our market research findings to discover the key challenges facing the Brazilian plant-based meat market — at every stage of the value chain.
Guide for Startups
Everything you need to
plan, launch and thrive
in the alternative protein industry.
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All of the work that GFI does is free, so donations from our community of supporters are essential.
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The advancement of alternative proteins depends on science, scale, and investment. Although the sector has accumulated important lessons learned in recent years, there are still technological bottlenecks that need to be overcome to...