From Ukraine to Syria to Yemen, satellite data – including imagery and AI-driven analytics – is helping to track the impact of conflict on agriculture.
FTW Ventures has just unveiled a new $4 million fund, with food and ag biosciences and automation among the areas it’s targeting for investment.
India will be home to more than 1.4 billion people by 2030. Unlike consumers in Europe and the US, they’ll be looking to eat more meat – not less.
SP Ventures’ new fund will focus on seed and Series A-stage deals across a variety of sectors in Latin America’s agrifoodtech sector.
Starting next week, NURTURE by GROW will feature talks from Asia-Pacific thought leaders on tech’s role in creating a more secure and sustainable food system.
Israel’s SupPlant and US-based ClimaCell have joined forces to make precision ag insights more accessible to low-income farmers in emerging markets.
A new bill would task the USDA with creating a certification for ag carbon credit markets – but is government involvement a good thing?
Reader numbers were up 24% on H2 2019, with much of the growth coming from Asia Pacific and Africa – though the US retains its top spot.
Emerging from stealth, GrainCorp-backed FutureFeed will build a value chain from the ground up to cultivate and commercialize its seaweed additive.
The ongoing legal battle between Farmers Edge and Farmobile over which company owns the rights to a technology that gathers data from farm machinery has
The round was led by Gagarin Capital Partners, with Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC, along with various undisclosed business angels joining in.
Singapore’s VisVires New Protein and Switzerland’s Redalpine co-led the Series A funding, which will assist Mushlabs with scaling up its mycelium growing operations.
Pat Brown’s strategy to replace animal protein by focusing on taste has forced the meat industry to be reactive; now it needs to get proactive.
The Faroese company wants to make sea-bound macroalgae farming less labor intensive, and more able to withstand the elements.
Emerging markets that depend on ag exports to the EU, like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, risk being left behind if they don’t keep up with farm digitalization.
The pandemic has created a perfect opportunity for ag robotics startups to flex their muscle, founder and CEO John Lessing tells AFN.
Focused on food resilience, sustainability, and health, Pivot East will help UK and EU startups test-run their entry into Asia Pacific using Singapore as a springboard.
Albertsons reached out to the indoor farming startup amid the Covid-19 pandemic to find a new source of fresh produce to keep up with consumer demand.
Named Unfold, the new venture has received $30 million in funding from the two companies, along with rights to germplasm from Bayer’s vegetable portfolio.
Impact investor Astanor Ventures led the round, joined by similarly impact-minded WakeUp Capital
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