03.21.2022 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, Organic & Sustainability, NewsThe Organic & Non-GMO Report
There is a better way to grow and harvest sugarcane and our longtime partner and organic cane sugar supplier, Natíve is leading the way! Check out this article from The Organic and Non-GMO report for a closer look at how Natíve is successfully using regenerative agriculture to achieve full carbon neutrality. Natíve produces yields that are 20% higher than conventional sugarcane production and they are the first sugar producer to earn Regenerative Organic Certification.
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02.25.2022 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, Organic & Sustainability, Quality & Certifications, NewsFood Technology Magazine
In this industry update from IFT's Food Technology magazine, our longtime partner and organic cane sugar supplier, Natíve, is recognized for becoming the first Regenerative Organic Certified™ sugar producer. Regenerative Organic Certification was created to leverage and bring together existing high-bar certifications for environmental protection, animal welfare and fair trade. This new certification resonated strongly with Natíve because it encompassed so many of the practices they have innovated over the years.
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12.10.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, Organic & Sustainability, NewsSnack Food & Wholesale Bakery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 06, 2021) – Global Organics is proud to recognize its longtime partner, Natíve, for becoming the first Regenerative Organic Certified™ (ROC) sugar producer. Over the last 35 years, Natíve’s Green Cane Project has reinvented cane sugar growing and processing. By focusing on soil health and biodiversity, integrating sustainability at all levels of their operation, and ensuring social fairness to farm workers, Natíve’s Green Cane Project has been long recognized as the model for sustainability.
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12.06.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, Company NewsCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 06, 2021) – Global Organics is proud to recognize its longtime partner, Natíve, for becoming the first Regenerative Organic Certified™ (ROC) sugar producer. Over the last 35 years, Natíve’s Green Cane Project has reinvented cane sugar growing and processing. By focusing on soil health and biodiversity, integrating sustainability at all levels of their operation, and ensuring social fairness to farm workers, Natíve’s Green Cane Project has been long recognized as the model for sustainability.
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11.29.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, Coconut, NewsFood and Beverage Insider
As we head into the New Year, consumers are seeking better-for-you ingredients, cutting back on sugar and artificial sugar substitutes. In this Food & Beverage Insider article, Paul Whitman, fruit and vegetable specialties category manager, highlights the benefits of using all-natural, organic sweeteners to meet clean label standards without sacrificing taste or texture.
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09.30.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, NewsFood Processing
As more food and beverage manufacturers shift to clean label ingredients, the clean label distinction is starting to mean more than a short, recognizable ingredient list with a greater emphasis on social responsibility. In this article on sweeteners, our Business Development Manager, Alex Puglia, discusses how our partnership with Nekutli Alimentos Organicos Group, a union of four farming cooperatives, enables us to invest profits from agave sales directly back into local communities.
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08.25.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, NewsSnack Food & Wholesale Bakery
Lest anyone think that the pandemic pressed “pause” on campaigns for corporate sustainability, think again. Native Organic Sugar, São Paulo, Brazil, demonstrates that large-scale sugarcane production can improve soil, water, and biodiversity while also increasing yields to supply the snack and baking industries. Andrew Martino, category manager for sugar states, "organic sugar can be grown at scale."
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08.11.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, NewsBakingBusiness.com
“Organic coconut nectar is a millennium-old ‘new’ ingredient,” said Paul Whitman, fruit and vegetable specialties category manager, Global Organics Ltd. “Our supplier in Java, Indonesia, uses a traditional harvesting method: wrapping the coconut blossoms in palm leaves to prevent full blossoming. Twice daily, climbers carefully scale to the very top of the tree, expertly cut razor thin slices from the coconut flowers, to start the sap flowing and collect 2 to 5 liters per day. The sap is evaporated and concentrated to a syrup. If the sap was fully evaporated, you would have produced coconut sugar.
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06.03.2021 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & Sweeteners, Company NewsThe alternative to burning sugar cane is a win-win-win solution | Opinion
Maintaining profitability for Florida sugar producers is important, and green harvesting is not a threat; in fact, research shows that as soils adapt to green-harvesting regimes, the increased nutrient cycling that occurs increases yields over time. The world’s largest organic, regenerative agricultural operation, Natíve Green Cane Project in Sao Paulo, Brazil, switched to green harvesting in the 1980s. It now maintains 20% higher yields than conventional sugarcane.
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08.20.2020 | Author:
| Category: Cane Sugar & SweetenersWe proudly announce that our supply partner for organic cane sugar and organic ethanol, the Native Green Cane Project, has been awarded two prestigious environmental certifications.
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