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Competition, price jumps expected as demand outpaces supply of European forest carbon credits

2025 is “a critical window for forward-looking companies to take action” on forest carbon credits, says project developer Arbonics.

Agtech

Climate & sustainability

Climate friendly beef? ALDF sues USDA for records over ‘misleading’ Beef Checkoff environmental claims

According to the ALDF, USDA has “repeatedly approved” Beef Checkoff-funded ads with false and misleading claims about beef’s climate impact.

Climate & sustainability

Policy & regulation

Beef cattle. Image credit: istock/venuestock

Guest article: EU novel food delays. Why bureaucracy is choking off food innovation

Novel food authorizations in the EU take 2.5 years on average—and sometimes as long as six years—just to receive an EFSA opinion. For many startups, that’s a death sentence.

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

EMEA

Competition, price jumps expected as demand outpaces supply of European forest carbon credits

Climate friendly beef? ALDF sues USDA for records over ‘misleading’ Beef Checkoff environmental claims

Guest article: EU novel food delays. Why bureaucracy is choking off food innovation

Breaking: Eclipse Ingredients secures funding for its ‘capital-light’ spin on making human lactoferrin

Guest article: The AI race has a lesson for African agri SME support

Arkeon CEO delivers postmortem on ‘protein from air’ startup: ‘We just simply ran out of time’

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mars launches ‘sustainability fund,’ Bunge & Viterra merge, Olo goes private

Little Leaf Farms’ CEO on building an indoor ag business: ‘Any logical approach to growing a plant would include the sun’

Miraterra acquires soil DNA startup Trace Genomics: ‘Independent growth wasn’t sustainable’

Anthropic’s Project Vend proves AI autonomy is still a ways off, but now’s the time to experiment

Speciality chemicals manufacturer ICL buys Lavie Bio activity from Evogene in latest deal for ag biologicals

The realities of agrifoodtech investment in 2025: ‘Venture capital is not about being patient’

Fresh funding in hand, Complete Farmer eyes expansion of its ag marketplace across Africa

Agrifoodtech VC funding drops to $5.1bn, but ‘these are typical bottom signals, indicating real opportunities’

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climeworks raises $162m, Danone acquires Kate Farms, Del Monte files Ch. 11

Flagship Pioneering’s new RNA-based crop protection company could provide ‘a huge way to deal with climate change’

Platform10 signs MOU with the Biological Products Industry Alliance to ‘enhance grower confidence in biological products’

Deep tech in regenerative agriculture: essential ally or unnecessary intrusion?

Bluemethane deploys first production-scale methane-capture unit at biogas plant

Griffith Foods on building ‘trust, transparency and long-term partnerships’ in regenerative agriculture

Chinova Bioworks rides MAHA wave, expands global footprint as more firms spurn synthetic preservatives

Guest article: A plan for the pile. Fixing California’s biomass bottleneck

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climatiq raises $11.7m, Doktar bags $8.7m, Planetary acquires Libre Foods

Freight Farms customers find a new home as vertical farming co Growcer acquires the former’s assets

Innovation chokehold or ‘meaningless lawsuit’? Agtech weighs in on the Carbon Robotics vs. Laudando & Associates case

Belgian startup Koppie emerges from stealth to disrupt alt-coffee market with single-ingredient offering

Large-scale microalgae plant powered by ‘biosolar leaf’ tech will be operational in 2027, says Arborea

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