2 million acres and counting: unpacking ADM’s regenerative agriculture progress report for North America
Food processing and commodities giant ADM aims to have 4 million acres signed up for regenerative agriculture by 2027.
Food processing and commodities giant ADM aims to have 4 million acres signed up for regenerative agriculture by 2027.
More than a century in the making, Indiana’s innovation track record encompasses human health, plant science and animal health.
As part of GROW’s 2024 program, which kicks off in April, 10 founders will receive a $100k cash investment from AgFunder, introductions to its global network of co-investors, and mentorship and support from Singapore-based agrifoodtech accelerator, GROW, over a five-month period.
Food delivery is not the only restaurant tech category out there, but it’s been the most prominent over the last decade.
Many consumers remain blissfully unaware that it slaughters billions of male chicks every year… but not to put meat on the table.
The UMAMI/Cell AgriTech facility in Malaysia—the first phase of which is set to come online in Q1, 2025—has a projected annual output of 3,000+ tons (6 million pounds) of cultivated meat/seafood.
Agrela makes a monitoring platform that to monitor soil, moisture and other elements of cropland and other environments.
As agtech innovation accelerates, companies and investors need trustworthy insights on likely farmer adoption rates to assess the best tools.
Meatiply’s focus on the production of complex value-added compounds using animal cells will allow it to create cultivated meat products with added health benefits, claims the startup.
AAII participants said collaboration can positively impact everything from policy to infrastructure gaps to supply chain issues.
Personalized nutrition co Bioniq has three core customers, says Vadim Fedotov: “Females aged 35+ interested in prevention. Fitness enthusiasts who love their Apple watches and gadgets. And consumers aged 50+, where it becomes more of a longevity support system.”
An online auction for the assets of Florida-based Lemnature AquaFarms—which produced proteins and fibers from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (a.k.a. duckweed)—will be held on Dec 12.
Pea milk maker Ripple Foods has raised $49m in a new round according to an SEC filing, taking its cumulative funding to more than $274m.
Liberation Labs has secured a $25m government-backed loan to support its first commercial-scale precision fermentation facility in the US.
Farmtech funding for Southeast Asia startups has steadily grown since 2018 despite the overall drop in VC dollars to the region.
We’ve known for years that electrical fields can boost crop yields, says Rainstick cofounder Mic Black. “But try putting lightning in a box.”
Investors were pushing cultivated meat startups “to grow as quick and as big as possible while the technologies were not yet mature enough,” says Aleph Farms CEO Didier Toubia.
Ceres, a nonprofit founded on the principle that sustainability makes good business sense, has assessed efforts by some of the world’s largest companies to eliminate deforestation and found most of them could do better.
Climate action levels remain “half baked” for 44% of the 83 companies examined in a new analysis by climate intelligence platform CarbonCloud.
Food security is top of mind in Singapore, which imports most of its food, but are policymakers connecting it to climate change?