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An Unconventional Ag Deal: Why AgDevCo Invested in a Tanzanian Hydropower Plant

March 1, 2018 Jessica Pothering Leave a comment

AgDevCo recently made an unconventional investment that could have great impact on the rural, agricultural economies in Tanzania.

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60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now!

February 13, 2019 10:01 am | By AgFunder

Voting will close at 5 pm PT on February 28. The winners will be exclusively announced at the ReThink Agri-Food Innovation Week in San Francisco on March 20 at a special networking evening bridging the World Agri-Tech and the Future Food-Tech Summits. Read more →

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This German Startup Has Just Planted 50M Trees with its Search Engine

February 13, 2019 11:50 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Ecosia, a German startup with an internet search engine, today, has brought in enough revenues to enable it to plant 50 million trees. This equates to the removal of 2.5 million tonnes of Co2 from the atmosphere. Read more →

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EXCLUSIVE: Founder of Agtech’s First Unicorn David Friedberg Reveals Investment Portfolio of The Production Board

February 21, 2019 2:22 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

You may have seen The Production Board crop up on a few agrifood tech investments, but there's little publicly-available information about the investment holding company founded by David Friedberg. Until now. Read more →

Technology Corner

In the Mooood For Love: UK Startup Launches Tudder, a Tinder For Cows

February 14, 2019 10:19 am | By Richard Martyn-Hemphill

Tudder is a new swipe-led matchmaking app, helping farm animals across the UK find breeding partners in the quest for moo love. Read more →

Research & Data

BREAKING: Restaurants Can Earn $7 for Every $1 They Invest in Fighting Food Waste – new report

February 13, 2019 5:59 pm | By Lauren Manning

The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine's Day is one of the industry's biggest nights of the year. Read more →

Frankly Speaking

How to Overcome the Many Challenges Associated with Agricultural Data

February 14, 2019 4:44 am | By Anastasia Volkova

Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more. Read more →

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An Unconventional Ag Deal: Why AgDevCo Invested in a Tanzanian Hydropower Plant

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