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.
Exploiting blockchain’s full potential around traceability requires us to think of the technology as a tile to be integrated with other available solutions.
IPCC estimates that between 3.3–3.6 billion people live in regions highly vulnerable to climate change, threatening reliable access to food and water.
Climate-related cost increases for livestock companies will come from higher feed prices and expected carbon taxes, says FAIRR.
Innovators creating bio-based alternatives to synthetic, fossil fuel and animal-based products and materials are capturing investor attention.
As pricing parity gets closer to conventionally grown produce, focus on demand attributes will be increasingly important to the whole industry.
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a new tool for agriculture impact investment funds to measure the impact of their investments against others.
