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Guest article: Technology now exists to decouple fertilizer from oil and gas markets

The Gulf war offers yet another example of why we must decentralize fertilizer production to increase food security and protect the poor.

Agtech

APAC

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Guest article: Food’s fossil reckoning; energy crises are the new normal, and food is next

Millions of tons of fertilizer are stranded in the Persian Gulf. Spring planting is beginning. And the food system is, once again, discovering that it runs on oil.

Climate & sustainability

Investing

Guest article: Technology now exists to decouple fertilizer from oil and gas markets

Guest article: Food’s fossil reckoning; energy crises are the new normal, and food is next

How Lumi AI helps CPGs find ‘multi-million-dollar opportunities’ hidden in their supply chain data

SMEY’s Lipid Atlas taps yeast diversity + AI for custom oils via fermentation

New report: Agrifoodtech funding is flat but the story is shifting

🎥 Future Food-Tech: Big ideas, hard truths, and the path to scale

UC Davis launches Food & Health Angels to back foodtech startups as GLP-1 ‘tsunami’ approaches

🎥 The good, the bad, and the ugly of agrifoodtech investing… in conversation with Adam Bergman

Investors demand capital efficiency, focus, and no AI-polished pitch decks at World Agri-Tech, Future Food-Tech

Why Agmatix and Growers built ‘the Palantir of agriculture’

How to make regenerative agriculture ‘financially legible’ for agrifood corporates

Private equity in agtech: disciplined, selective, and increasingly hard to ignore

AgriFood Signals: Solugen nabs $36m for nitrogen fertilizer, Corteva & Resurrect Bio partner, the ‘Wikipedia’ of farming

🎥 Ag’s new toolkit: AI, genomics, and robotics converge at World Agri-Tech

Navigating AI’s impact on public and private markets

Unpacking Cargill’s AI strategy to transform R&D in an increasingly complex agrifood system

Dutch insect ag firm Protix shifts focus to Asia: ‘We could be cost competitive there from day one’

Unibio plans ‘world’s largest single-cell protein plant’ in Saudi Arabia as food security moves up agenda

Precision spraying startup AgZen nets $10m Series B. ‘Quantifiable ROI drove our investment,’ says DCVC Bio

AgriFood Signals: First close for Aqua-Spark Africa fund, Anchr nabs funds for AI in food distribution

Tropic bags $105m to scale gene-edited bananas, deploy TR4 resistant bananas in 2027

Crop Diagnostix launches RNA-based crop health early-warning system

Infant formula cereulide recall: an isolated supplier lapse or a structural vulnerability?

Leaps by Bayer’s PJ Amini on exits, epigenetics, AI-driven discovery and his ‘50% rule’

California Cultured bets on $3k reusable plastic bioreactors to transform economics of cultured cocoa

Buckle up, say investors as AI reshapes agrifoodtech: ROI may be “unusually tangible’

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