Key areas for potential investments include bio-based crop protections, agrifintech, supply chain sectors and education.
This “direct trade” model cuts out the middlemen so that GoodSAM works directly with the growers and their farmer associations.
Plant-and-soil health startup Sound Agriculture will use the new funding to enter new markets and develop new products.
Agency, education, and myth-busting are key.
Chile is becoming increasingly attractive to investors looking to back nature-based and/or sustainable agriculture-based solutions.
Gooddrop aims to grow cotton in vertical farms and keep spinning mills on the site of these farms to produce textiles.
The company will launch Agrovision Chile to build out a premium cherry operation and continue its global expansion.
The project will address water quality and wildlife habitats in the Mississippi River Basin, a critical conservation area of the US.
Plus: Danish startup Antag Therapeutics lands $80 million for next-gen weight loss therapy development.
Greater due diligence on forestry and nature-based projects is needed to avoid controversies and conflicts.
Increased supply chain traceability for seafood is “a no-brainer” from a financial perspective, says a new report from FAIRR.
Voltiris believes spectral filtering is the key to helping growers accelerate their energy transition and gain profitability in the process.
Plus: How not to waste 316 million pounds of food this Thanksgiving…
VC investment into aquaculture broke records in 2023; 2024 may tell a different story.
Muddy Machines will use the acquired tech to assist with the ongoing labor shortages in global agriculture, specifically with berry crops.
More than half of all Thanksgiving food waste in the US will be just two items, turkey and milk, says think tank ReFED.
Kelp Blue founder Daniel Hooft discusses the ups and downs of farming giant kelp and his journey from the oil industry to aquaculture.
Plus: Malaysian farm-to-restaurant platform Secai Marche raises Series A funding.
The vertical farmer best known for its strawberries is also gearing up for its first international expansion via a new R&D center in Tokyo.
The newly announced AgTech Advisory Collective aims to provide a broad range of expertise and services to the agtech industry.
