A deadly fungus is putting the world’s banana supply at risk. Here’s what you need to know about Fusarium TR4, and what researchers are doing to fight it
Applications for the evokeAG 2020 Startup Program in Australia are open and the team has called on three of Australia’s leading innovators and champions for entrepreneurship to discuss what makes a stellar pitch.
Karn Manhas is founder and CEO of Terramera, an agbiotech startup focused on improving the sustainability of farming. Here he writes about the importance of promoting the farming industry as an appealing and impactful career for the next generation.
Investors are paying attention. So are larger meat, dairy and seafood groups. And yet the cell ag industry still has a long way to go, agreed delegates of the recent New Harvest conference in Boston. Brittany Solano reports for AFN.
Plant-based meat still costs two-to-five times as much as its animal counterparts and solving this problem is far from an inevitability, writes Christie Lagally.
To mobilize the innovative power of the remote sensing sector for cocoa, the Rainforest Alliance recently announced the Ag-tech developer challenge – a call to remote-sensing, high-tech and earth-observation companies.
What I witnessed during the recent 2019 Mexico AgTech Competition was inspirational and motivating,” writes Adrian Garcia-Casarrubias.
Here Shmuel Rausnitz writes about his concerns relating to the FDA and foodtech entrepreneur’s tendency to oversimplify consumer demands and needs across demographics.
Despite their ingenuity and a commendable focus on sustainability and food loss, entrepreneurs are missing a huge opportunity by not prioritizing nutrition, writes Amy Beaudreault.
At last year’s F&A Next conference, Adam Anders, managing partner at Anterra Capital, talked to legendary entrepreneur and principal at Future Shape, Tony Fadell about why investors are being drawn to the sector, and why we need to unseat the giants of the agricultural industry to empower innovation to flourish.
Consumers and digitization were at the forefront at the Crop Innovation in Business Conference hosted in Amsterdam this week. The conference is conducted every other
Anyone paying passing attention to the agricultural sector understands that it is in the middle of an “agtech” revolution. But where is the USDA in all of this?
Agriculture is often referred to as the last bastion of digitization, but what types of technologies will succeed?
“I had a front-row seat to the buzz – and the reality. It’s easy to criticize this industry, and the entrepreneurs who drive it forward, for being full of hype. In many cases, that is true; but it’s part of a more complicated reality,” writes Sean McDonald.
The cost of farming indoors has always been a big question mark around its impactfulness on the food system; if it’s too expensive, it won’t be scalable.
One of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice, writes the Illinois Soybean Association.
The wide range of industrial hemp products represent the greatest opportunity for American agricultural markets seen within the past fifty years, writes Jon Vaught.
The real power to endow people with fundamentally longer, healthier lives resides in the hands of the food industry, writes Jim Flatt.
Matt Crisp is cofounder and CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology and gene editing. Here he writes about the startup’s evolution and transition to now serving a broad range of clients across the food system.
A number of Indian agritech startups are making headlines with their transformative technologies, but the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) project in the southern Indian province of Andhra Pradesh is also making waves in the once-ignored industry.
