State of Alternative Protein series
Explore our comprehensive report series for insights into the rapidly evolving alternative protein landscape.
What are the State of Alternative Protein reports?
Our flagship annual report series provides a global snapshot of the ever-evolving alternative protein industry. We synthesize company landscape and product trends, investment and sales data, new scientific advancements, and public investment and regulatory updates to highlight progress toward a world in which alternative proteins are no longer alternative.
Our comprehensive, open-access reports offer a global look into the alternative protein ecosystem. Whether you’re an industry professional, policymaker, or journalist, our reports will help you make sense of the fast-moving alternative protein industry and empower you with robust data to drive decision-making. Gain a deeper understanding of:
Commercial landscape
An overview of new ventures, partnerships, facilities, and marketplace trends.
Consumer insights
A synthesis of consumer research covering consumer motivators and barriers, go-to-market strategy, and nomenclature.
Investments
An analysis of investment data, including investments by country and region, most active investors, and key funding rounds.
Government and regulation
An overview of global public investment for alternative proteins and regulatory updates.
Science and technology
A look at major scientific developments across every stage of the technology stack, plus insights into the environmental, societal, and nutritional benefits of alternative proteins.
Outlook
A look ahead to the likely drivers of and barriers to the growth of the alternative protein industry.
Dig into the reports
GLOBAL SNAPSHOT REPORT
2024 State of Alternative Proteins
This report is new to our series this year. It serves as a global snapshot of the alternative protein ecosystem in 2024. In this report, we look across science, policy, and the private sector, zoom in to read between the lines, and share stories about the people and places advancing plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-enabled proteins. You’ll also find consumer insights, regional takes, and opportunities to dig deeper.
Explore deeper dives
State of the Industry: Plant-based meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and ingredients
This report details the commercial landscape, sales, investments, innovation trends, and regulatory developments in the plant-based meat, seafood, egg, dairy, and ingredients industry.
State of the Industry: Cultivated meat, seafood, and ingredients
This report details the commercial landscape, investments, regulatory developments, and scientific progress in the cultivated meat and seafood industry.
State of the Industry: Fermentation for meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and ingredients
This report details the commercial landscape, investments, regulatory developments, and scientific progress in the fermentation for alternative proteins industry.
The State of Global Policy: Alternative proteins
Our annual State of Global Policy report tracks public investment in alternative proteins and showcases the actions governments take to position themselves as leaders in the field.
Explore regional insights
Find regional alternative protein market insights in State of the Industry reports produced by our colleagues in Asia Pacific, Germany, India, and Israel.
State of the Industry: Asia Pacific
GFI APAC’s 2023 report on the alternative proteins sector in Asia Pacific features a deep dive into public and private investments, the R&D ecosystem, and sector progress from ideation to product commercialization and growth.
State of the Industry: Germany
Explore 2023 developments surrounding plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-made proteins, investments, scientific progress, consumer research, and policy recommendations for Germany.
State of the Industry Report: India
Get current insights into the state of India’s smart protein industry including commercial landscape, consumer and investment insights, technical advancements, and regulatory updates.
State of the Industry: Israel
Learn about alternative protein investments, government activity, industry, market data, and research in GFI Israel’s 2023 State of the Industry report.
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