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GROW startups Mayani, Rubilabs & S4S show 3 different ways for tech to uplift smallholder farmers

July 16, 2021

The trio are using tech to help the world’s poorest farmers improve their yields and increase their incomes.

The answer to cell-cultured meat’s biggest conundrum? Fruit flies, says Future Fields

July 15, 2021

As is the case with a lot of great Canadian ideas, the founders of Future Fields came up with theirs while waiting in line at Tim Hortons.

EXCLUSIVE: Men urged to use ‘untapped power’ to reduce gender bias against women in agrifoodtech

July 15, 2021

Female agrifoodtech entrepreneurs experience persistent negative gender bias, according to a new report published by KK&P and EIT Food.

RootCamp is looking for agritech startups to join its latest batch & disrupt the food value chain

July 15, 2021

Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?

Next Gen Foods’ tech-inspired, asset-light model just closed plant protein’s biggest-ever seed round

July 14, 2021

The Singapore-based startup has scored $30 million in seed funding from the likes of Temasek, GGV Capital, and England soccer star Dele Alli.

Introducing GROW2Asia: A fast-track for Australian agrifood innovators to scale into Asia remotely

July 13, 2021

It’s a unique accelerator program offered by GROW in partnership with Food Futures Company and Austrade, Australia’s trade and investment agency.

Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits

July 13, 2021

Carbon credits schemes involving agriculture are growing in number – but not all are necessarily equal in their impact, Dan Blaustein-Rejto writes.

Brief: Nestlé to enter cell-cultured meat market in partnership with Israeli startup

July 13, 2021

Nestlé is said to be planning a range of products which blend cultivated meat with plant-based protein.

We already have the blueprint to prevent the next pandemic – and it’s on our farms

July 6, 2021

On World Zoonoses Day, a call for farms in emerging markets to get access to the same tech and knowhow as their counterparts elsewhere.

After overtaking Alibaba, ag marketplace Pinduoduo is focusing on foodtech to hit profitability

July 5, 2021

Having overtaken e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on the active buyers front, Pinduoduo’s looking upstream at alt-protein and logistics tech, its sustainability head tells AFN.

Indoor farm Shenandoah Growers picks former Starbucks marketing chief as new CEO

June 30, 2021

It claims to be the US’s largest indoor farming operation to be certified organic by the USDA – and the country’s leading supplier of fresh herbs.

A sole focus on organic farming will not get us where we need to be

June 28, 2021

CRISPR is the best tool the EU has to achieve its ambitious agrifood sustainability goals. The bloc needs to keep that squarely in mind when regulating its use, write Rudi Ariaans and Ferdinand Los.

Future Food 🎙️: Diving deep with Shiok Meats’ Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood

June 25, 2021

CEO Sriram on why she made the leap from full-time scientist to founder – and how she reconciles vegetarianism with being a cultured meat eater.

Brief: Impossible Foods could sell proprietary heme to other companies – CEO Brown

June 25, 2021

“We have absolutely no aversion to doing that, we just haven’t had the bandwidth,” he said.

AgFunder’s hiring a Partner-track venture capital Investment Associate/VP

June 24, 2021

In this role, you’ll represent AgFunder to some of the smartest and most talented founders and investors in the industry, and you’ll need to be at least their equal.

ANINA capsule, pre-cooked and post-cooked

Meet the plant-based pioneers in GROW’s latest Impact cohort: ANINA, Green Rebel & Rainfed

June 24, 2021

In this roundtable article, AFN hears from team members at three GROW startups which are playing their part in the plant-based protein revolution.

Behind the scenes at the top agrifood CVCs

June 23, 2021

There’s nothing new about agrifood corporates investing directly in strategic technologies – but it is now a mainstream approach.

Brief: Singapore’s NTU launches ‘first alt-protein university course’ in Asia Pacific

June 21, 2021

NTU students will learn the science behind cell-cultured, plant-based, and fermented proteins, as well as the market opportunities and regulatory issues they present.