AgFunder Network Partners

Category: Opinion

Creative financing is the key to helping more farmers deploy industry-saving solutions

September 12, 2023

Many farmers are open to agtech innovation, but current financing structures hold them back from adoption.

For the love of poop, rebrand your microbiome startup!

September 7, 2023

The ever-popular gut microbiome sector must create a run-to-poop future that moves beyond just science and into storytelling.

Our oceans are in a state of emergency. Aqua-Spark’s CEO explains how startups can help restore their health

August 28, 2023

Lissy Smit explains how the Aqua-Spark portfolio is addressing some of the greatest challenges right now for ocean and marine life.

Why we need bio-agriculture to help feed the world while reducing chemical usage

August 24, 2023

Bio-agriculture integrates conventional and natural farming, reducing farmers’ and consumers’ health imbalance and risks.

What makes a good food & agriculture leader? 6 questions with INSEAD’s Shekshnia

August 23, 2023

We caught up with senior professor of entrepreneurship at Europe’s leading business school ahead of the Future Food & Ag leadership program at INSEAD to discuss the key attributes of a food and agriculture leader.

Indoor ag has hit ‘a bump on the S curve,’ not the trough of disillusionment – EY agrifood leader

August 22, 2023

EY’s Rob Dongoski dives into the macro factors impacting controlled environment agriculture — and what startups should do.

Meet the founder: Green Growth founders discuss why precision agriculture tools need to be simpler for farmers

August 4, 2023

The Green Growth platform aims to integrate precision agriculture software as simply as possible with farm hardware.

Meet the founder: FarmLab’s Sam Duncan on why effective soil mapping is a lot like blood testing

July 21, 2023

The FarmLab agronomy platform can help farmers better map, sample and analyze soil for agronomy and carbon projects.

Q&A: GRIDX CEO on why Argentina is leading Latin America’s boom in biotech innovation

July 18, 2023

GRIDX cofounder and CEO Matías Peire on how his company helps scientists build startups that are leading the way for Latin America biotech.

Founding a fintech startup for farmers with your husband: In conversation with Traive’s Aline Pezente

July 17, 2023

Combining their expertise in agriculture supply chains and capital markets, husband and wife team Aline and Fabricio Pezente faced some challenges raising funding in the early days.

Letter from the great food fight

July 14, 2023

The agrifoodtech industry has descended into a high school movie-style food fight. It’s not only off-putting but is emerging as a dangerous cancel culture for farming and food production practices rather than people.

Meet the founder: PerPlant’s Rasmus Emil Hansen on taking precision agriculture to the edge

July 14, 2023

PerPlant says its tech can monitor fields and generate insights with centimeter-level precision at a fraction of the cost of other tools.

Q&A w/ Bayer: ‘It would be detrimental to take chemical crop protection out of the toolbox’

July 5, 2023

Peter R. Mueller talks food security, efficacy and a host of other reasons we need both biological and chemical crop protection.

Louisa Burwood-Taylor, head of media and research, AgFunder

🎥 Reporting on the Latin American agrifoodtech ecosystem from São Paulo, Brazil

July 4, 2023

Louisa Burwood-Taylor heads to São Paulo, Brazil, to explore the latest developments in foodtech and agtech.

Can we modify EAT-Lancet’s ‘planetary health diet’ to be nutritionally adequate and environmentally friendly?

July 3, 2023

The landmark EAT–Lancet Commission’s ‘planetary health diet’ would improve food security, decrease noncommunicable diseases and reduce the environmental impact of food. But is has two problems, claims Ty Beal.