The food industry can reduce its environmental impact by using sustainable sourcing, reducing food waste, promoting plant-based and alternative proteins, increasing energy efficiency, implementing circular economy principles, collaborating with suppliers and partners, using technology such as blockchain and sensors, investing in sustainable packaging, improving recycling infrastructure and education, supporting smallholder farmers, and promoting fair and equitable supply chains.

To improve product quality and ensure food safety in a competitive global market, companies can utilize food safety management systems, sustainable packaging, traceability systems, data analytics, and automation/robotics. These strategies can help meet regulatory requirements, improve customer satisfaction, and gain a competitive advantage.

Food companies are upgrading to graph databases, like Neo4j, to better handle large amounts of data and respond to changing customer needs and market conditions. Graph databases excel at handling complex data sets and are flexible and adaptable.

Low-code applications, like Softools or Microsoft Power Platform, are popular for quickly building custom applications without extensive coding skills. They can be used by individuals, small teams, and large teams. However, it is important to consider processes, performance, and long-term requirements before deciding to use low-code tools.