Carbon is not a dirty word: the case for recarbonizing our soils
Lack of understanding about the role of carbon is a problem for the future of the space, writes TerraMerra CEO Karn Manhas.
Lack of understanding about the role of carbon is a problem for the future of the space, writes TerraMerra CEO Karn Manhas.
Fresh off its $110 million funding round, Nigeria’s TradeDepot is pushing the boundaries of digitalization and financing for Africa’s small food businesses and retailers.
A few months ago, Bayer and Microsoft announced a partnership. Our article about it went quasi-viral and spurred a number of responses. Here’s what the industry said.
Soil microbial products for farmers have typically been unreliable. Kula Bio has changed that, writes AgFunder’s Rob Leclerc.
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
Co-founder and CEO Jason Green discusses its new 250,000-square-foot facility and the importance of the microbiome.
The timing of KKR’s vote of confidence is particularly interesting as concerns mount about the future of some vertical farms, but Bowery CEO Irving Fain says it’s a positive inflection point for the industry.
The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.
Carbon markets are now a fixture in industry headlines – and Iowa is leading the way to encourage carbon sequestration in farming.
The Seoul-based startup closed a $15 million Series B round last month, with the Asian Development Bank among the participating investors.
The Annapolis, Maryland-based company uses microbes to convert agrifood byproducts into fuel and fertilizer.
It was another busy year for AFN’s external contributors. Here are our 20 most-read guest posts, by unique pageviews, over the past 12 months.
There is “no non-engineered way” to fight climate change at scale and in time, says chief science officer Ellen Jorgensen.
Vertical farming is facing a period of depression and correction as big farms struggle to pay investors back while running complex and expensive operations. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, writes Henry Gordon-Smith.
This year’s Nutrition for Growth Summit, held in Olympic host city Tokyo, provided a platform from which to accelerate global progress on malnutrition.
Cellular agriculture startups aim to solve agrifood’s biggest sustainability problems. But smallholders must be part of the solution, writes Saron Berhane.
With a string of failures against agtech’s name, entrepreneurs must be prepared to work extra hard to gain farmers’ trust, writes Semios founder Michael Gilbert.
The Cape Town-based startup considers itself a farming company enabled by technology, rather than a tech company working in ag, says CEO James Paterson.
It seems counterintuitive that shorter crops can result in enhanced yields; but they are more resistant to high winds and other extreme weather events, writes Bayer’s Richard Lawrence.
The Myco-Protein Innovation Call is focused on scaling the use of fungi as a protein source.
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