Giulia Stellari, sustainable sourcing director at Unilever, explains how the consumer goods giant is responding to food traceability concerns amid Covid-19.
Bits x Bites founder Matilda Ho thinks China’s digital revolution is finally reaching the farm gate, in spite of Covid-19, swine fever, and the trade war.
Prime Impact Fund is entering the world of agtech with the goal of wringing out emissions that are unlikely to be addressed by today’s class of startups.
Variations in color mean that defining quality parameters for fresh produce has traditionally been a complex affair. But AI is changing that.
Governments should recognize the risks of foodborne disease; but to ensure food security, they must avoid excessive restrictions on moving goods and people.
FTW Ventures has just unveiled a new $4 million fund, with food and ag biosciences and automation among the areas it’s targeting for investment.
Regenerative farming is nothing new. But today, many of its principles are more easily applied thanks to the development of new technologies.
Reader numbers were up 24% on H2 2019, with much of the growth coming from Asia Pacific and Africa – though the US retains its top spot.
Pat Brown’s strategy to replace animal protein by focusing on taste has forced the meat industry to be reactive; now it needs to get proactive.
Emerging markets that depend on ag exports to the EU, like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, risk being left behind if they don’t keep up with farm digitalization.
Mail order, frozen, plant-based chicken nuggets… Before we met Ben Pasternak, the founder of SIMULATE (formerly NUGGS), this would have sounded like the worst idea ever.
UK Research & Innovation, the UK government’s tech grant body, has upped the amount handed out for its latest food production challenge. But grant success isn’t just about money.
If 15-25% of farms adopted precision agriculture, greenhouse gas emissions and water use could be reduced by 10% and 20% respectively, according to the World Economic Forum.
From under-marketing your crop and lowballing yield estimates to ‘fixing’ contracts based on market volatility, here are the biggest mistakes you can make in grain marketing.
Infrastructure, crop cultivation, and logistics and distribution are set to be the leading areas for funding in the years ahead, says East Ventures partner Melisa Irene.
We catch up with Ward and Presser about agrifood tech investing as Presser joins NY-based law firm MoFo’s M&A and PE practices.
Of all the reports on the tragic and rising death toll resulting from Covid-19, there’s one underlying health condition that has been largely overlooked: obesity.
Soilworks’ co-founders formed the regenerative ag-focused investment group after working together at B2B SaaS investor Scaleworks.
WRI’s criticism of regenerative agriculture based on its conclusions about the feasibility of carbon sequestration is a foolish exercise in throwing the bovine out with the bathwater.
“If you build it; the funding will come.” It might not be the exact quote that drove Kevin Costner to build a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield in Field of Dreams, but it is the advice that many founders and entrepreneurs are following as they look for locations for their agtech startup businesses.
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