The field results and registration mark the first geographical expansion for Israel’s Grace Breeding and its biofertilizer product.
Agribusiness Marketplaces and Fintech was the most-funded upstream category for India agrifoodtech in 2022.
FAIRR asks companies to disclose their strategies around mitigating antimicrobial resistance and its threat to the global supply chain.
2022 was a lousy year for agrifoodtech investing, and India was not immune to the headwinds impacting global markets, with funding to Indian startups in the field dipping 33% year-over-year to $2.4 billion, according to AgFunder’s new India AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2023.
The Americas and Asia tied as regions with the most ag biotech funding in 2022, with each raising $1.3 billion.
Investment for Australia agrifoodtech dropped 40% year-over-year in 2022, but enthusiasm for climate-focused companies remains robust.
Robots that automate the task of weeding are far and away the most popular right now amongst specialty crop growers, says Western Growers.
Venture builder Enviu has released a report after surveying Kenyan farmers to get their take on the regenerative ag movement.
While the world is facing the challenges of sustainable food production intensification, new technologies offer a tremendous opportunity to address these issues, writes Marco Brini in the wake of publishing a book about digital ag adoption.
Key barriers to widespread adoption are ‘not enough measurement and not enough funding’ for food waste solutions, says ReFED.
Later-stage deals for food waste startups increased in 2022, while larger platforms are starting to acquire smaller solution providers.
High-tech solutions to end male chick culling by sexing chicks before they hatch are “more advanced than people realize,” insists the founder of new nonprofit Innovate Animal Ag. At the same time, organizers of the global Egg-Tech Prize have not yet issued a final award because “none of the applicants met the criteria.”
All continents except Africa recorded an over 30% decline in agrifoodtech investments in 2022.
The N-OVATOR program in 2023 opens to all Pivot Bio customers hoping to replace synthetic nitrogen and bring down on-farm emissions.
Only half of agrifood corps have used startup scouting in open innovation efforts, preferring to collaborate with research, according to new report.
California startups raised nearly twice as much funding as the second-largest global market for VC investment in agrifoodtech.
‘Feed the gut, protect the liver, support the brain…’ AFN caught up with sugar’s arch nemesis Dr. Robert Lustig to learn more about his three-pronged strategy to re-engineer ultra-processed foods to improve their ‘metabolic matrix’
US retail sales of plant-based foods rose 6.6% to $8bn in 2022, with growth in creamers, eggs, and butter partially offset by declines in meat, ice cream, and cheese, according to new reports from the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) and the Good Food Institute (GFI). Unit sales fell 3%.
Investors poured money almost equally into the Recycling and Prevention categories of food waste mitigation in 2022 in North America.
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