VCs need to put more money into women entrepreneurs as a path to profit and impact, and to generate better returns.
Some of the largest food companies have set ambitious climate targets for 2030 and 2040, but they are not on track to reach them, says Kenny Fahey at Leading Harvest.
Rice and wheat are harvested with combine harvesters. Yet strawberries are still picked by hand at a time when growers are facing rising labor costs and serious labor shortages. So why aren’t we seeing more mechanization being deployed for specialty crops?
AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.
Agriculture is the beating heart of New Zealand. So why is New Zealand still not delivering on its full potential as an agri-innovation ecosystem?
From insects to indoor greens, Australian startups demonstrate the potential for novel farming systems at home and abroad.
The Egg-Tech Prize—a global competition to find scalable technologies to sex chicks before they hatch—remains unclaimed because none of the applicants meet the criteria. It’s time to explore gene editing approaches, says eggXYt CEO Yehuda Elram.
IFT FIRST’s Startup Pavilion brings technical, business and scientific professionals under one roof — a true rarity at agrifood events.
2022 was a grim year for agrifoodtech investment, with funding down 44% year-on-year globally, in part driven by an 81% drop in funding in China. So why did funding fall off a cliff and what can we expect in 2023 and beyond?
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.
Latin American agrifoodtech startups hoping to scale their solutions can now apply to the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2023.
Around Latin America and the Caribbean, startups are using technology to prevent, avoid or upcycle food waste up and down the supply chain.
Exploiting blockchain’s full potential around traceability requires us to think of the technology as a tile to be integrated with other available solutions.
As pricing parity gets closer to conventionally grown produce, focus on demand attributes will be increasingly important to the whole industry.
While global foodtech investment declined in 2022, foodtech investment in Spain increased 9.3%, says the founder of Madrid-based foodtech accelerator Eatable Adventures.
While it is true, as the saying goes, that ‘healthy soils produce healthy plants’, the question is: “What creates healthy soils?” asks John Kempf.
New agritech innovations in vertical farming and indoor ag need to be integrated into existing agricultural operations, establishing a hybrid system.
Real cost and productivity loss on the farm are creating a catalyst for agriculture to take a big leap forward in its digitization journey.
As we look to the next decade there’s an underserved, tech-driven opportunity for founders and investors alike: serving the ag service providers.
Farm Action is championing for a Fair 2023 Farm Bill: an opportunity to create a fair, inclusive, and competitive agricultural system, writes Dee Laninga.
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