Supporting food system transformation in the world's most important protein market
China consumes 26% of the world’s meat, 45% of the world’s seafood and 43% of the world’s pork in the meat category. Dao Foods is helping game-changing entrepreneurs bring new alternatives to this fast-evolving country.
Source: OECD, sustainablefisheries-uw.org, 2022/2023
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China is indispensable in solving one of the world’s most urgent problems: Meat.
Industrialized animal agriculture puts enormous pressure on our planet’s natural resources.
China consumes 26% of the world’s meat – twice as much as the United States, including almost half of the world’s seafood and pork. Given the sheer size of China’s population, even small increases in individual meat intake will lead to outsized environmental consequences worldwide.
Yet, while investment in alternative protein (AP) is booming globally, it is still nascent in China.
Dao Foods is changing the game.
We Connect. We Mentor. We Invest.
Dao Foods has been using a blended finance strategy to achieve our impact goals in this field. Our impact investments and ecosystem building work have lent credibility to each other on the ground. We are considered to have skin in the game and have proved ourselves genuinely impact-oriented for the long term. Our plan is to expand beyond China's tier-one cities over the next few years to raise awareness and interest in alternative protein entrepreneurship opportunities across the nation. In recent years, the alternative protein industry has seen encouraging growth in major Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen. However, much of the country has yet to fully grasp the strategic potential of alternative proteins. Moving forward, our goal is to identify and support new alternative protein entrepreneurs and develop ecosystems tailored to their specific needs, with the involvement of both private sector and government stakeholders.
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