Integrating smallholder farmers into digital ag can help meet the EUDR objectives while also making farming more inclusive and sustainable.
Expect fewer agtech-specific funds, more corporate involvement and lots of generative AI.
Despite their green credentials, smallholder farmers in the global south face significant challenges under new EU regulations such as EUDR.
Generate Capital recently invested $50 million in Grow Up Farms, which runs a renewable-energy-powered vertical farm in the UK.
CHONEX aims to supercharge soil health in the face of intensive farming practices and extreme weather brought on by climate change.
“Materials are much more forgiving than protein isolates for food,” Brett Cotten tells AgFunderNews.
Mercy Corps Ventures has partnered with Stable Foods to launch a new pilot that will test IoT-based irrigation systems for smallholder farms.
Fashol aims to stabilize food prices for farmers and reduce supply chain waste through its agribusiness marketplace.
Korea’s agricultural sector is experiencing significant transformation driven by advancements in microbiome technology and natural products.
Widespread usage of GLP-1 drugs will have a profound impact on the food industry, predicts Wegovy user and founder of Sweden Foodtech Johan Jörgensen.
Events like Groundswell UK are key to understanding agricultural practices and forging relationships with pioneering regenerative farmers.
IIF founder Nathan MacPheeon how his company’s investment platform for farm assets lowers risks for farmers and gets them paid faster.
Precision agriculture and AI have the potential to transform farming. But legal risks around data privacy and bias need to be carefully navigated, argue Dr. Siegmar Pohl and Jordan Glassman at law firm Kilpatrick.
Hungary- and London-based Scoutlabs is betting on a direct-to-grower distribution model for its digital trap management system.
A lot has changed in 10 years. At Groundswell, the UK-based regenerative agriculture festival, the movement felt unified, positive – and big!
GWP100, the default timescale for determining carbon dioxide equivalence (CO2eq), is problematic when it comes to measuring methane emissions, says Aleph Farms.
In the race to digitize agriculture we must remember to keep growers and producers at the center of operations and innovations.
Plant sap analysis can harmonize regenerative agriculture with economic prosperity.
Adapting to a changing environment while supporting growers is the over-arching theme of this year’s Salinas Biological Summit.
In an effort to untangle the confusion around UPFs, IFT will host a panel of experts at its upcoming IFT First show in Chicago.
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