The just concluded African Agri Investment Indaba hosted ag stakeholders, chiming in on the sector’s state of financing, inclusion and productivity.
Eratani, an Indonesian startup providing digital farm management solutions has secured $3.8m in a seed round led by Singapore’s TNB Aura
Forsea, an Israeli cultured seafood startup is using organoid technolog, mostly used in phrama and developmental biology, to produce cultured seafood.
Achieving food security and boosting smallholder farm incomes go hand in hand; Robert Madziva aims to do both with his digital agribusiness platform.
Indian farmtech startups raised $1.5bn in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, which was around 30% of total funding but 60% of deal count.
Nigerian agrifintech startups are taking up the challenge of addressing the 78% of Nigerian farmers who lack access to formal financial services.
A mix of high inflation, drought conditions, and high energy costs are making the chance of food shortages and food insecurity in the UK ever more likely this winter. We need circular solutions, argues one startup.
Investment in farm technologies was particularly buoyant, increasing 185% year-on-year and accounting for 60% of the total number of deals closed.
The segmented and unstructured nature of Africa’s food and FMCG supply chains calls for interventions, which investors seem to be leaning into.
Late-stage deals in the Asia-Pacific region grew by more than 30% in 2021; in H1 2022, the median size of deals dropped for the first time in three years.
Sessions at the AfricArena Grand Summit had diverse panels discussing investments and changing narratives on the perception of Africa’s startup ecosystem.
Bruce Gurfein, a UAE entrepreneur has completed a 9,000 km road trip across six countries: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Palestine, and Israel.
InnovoPro CEO Taly Nechushtan talks about building an innovative chickpea ingredient company that caters to clients’ tastebuds sustainably
Attendees to the AgriTech 4.0: Crops, Seeds & Soil conference discussed the need for sharing research and access to financing between academia and industry.
The chosen six startups aim to bring regenerative, nutritious, and sustainably and equitably produced food to Sub-Saharan Africa.
To curb deforestation and habitat destruction, governments must invest in scaling up more sustainable solutions to conventional animal protein production.
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. While there are calls for developing nations to seek compensation from the world’s biggest emitters at COP27, developing nations must also look to technology to mitigate the impacts of climate change – or adapt.
Seren Kell from the Good Food Institute Europe speaks to AFN following a £20 million pledge from two UK bodies to support the sector.
The food and beverage industry in the US installed 25% more robots last year , according the International Federation of Robotics.
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