Ag retailers need to help their customers boost crop yields to meet growing demand. But what method should they recommend to help growers produce more?
AI must be applied not just to growing more of this crop or that crop, but to optimizing agriculture’s entire value chain, writes Joseph Byrum.
Biometric tech has become part of our everyday lives, whether we’re opening a bank account, crossing a border, or unlocking a phone – and it’s coming to our food, too.
Agrobots built around collective computational intelligence could help us better understand the interactions between plant physiology, soil structure, and other environmental factors.
A couple of weeks ago we hosted our second Future Food News Review on Clubhouse with leading journalists in foodtech, agtech and food systems globally, including Pultizer prize-winner Kim Severson. Listen to the in-depth and nuanced discussion about the week’s top news here.
The Netherlands startup is now eight years old. We catch up with CEO Maarten Bosch to find out about its next steps.
AI that learns through ’embodied intelligence’ could boost agricultural resilience with its greater capacity to adapt to rapidly evolving climatic events.
With its Credit Score of Agriculture tool, the Wisconsin startup is hoping more data in agricultural lending can modernize and demystify the process.
We’re on Clubhouse and a new regular show we’re particularly excited about is the Future Food News Review, featuring leading journalists in foodtech and agtech discussing their top headlines of the week. Find out about last week here!
Many see AI’s ultimate goal as replication of the inner workings of the human brain. But is there another way to look at what AI can do for us?
After getting historic regulatory approval in Singapore, it was about time AFN caught up with Eat Just founder and CEO Josh Tetrick.
PepsiCo and the IDB are launching the Next Generation Agriculture Fund to promote the inclusion of women in agriculture across Latin America.
As AgFunder’s 2021 AgriFoodTech Investment Report shows, exits in 2020 were centered on subsectors that grew in relevance in light of Covid-19 – such as digital platforms for food delivery.
The Mixing Bowl released its first Indoor AgTech Landscape in September 2019. This is their first update, zeroing in on this evolving ecosystem’s role in addressing challenges facing the entire agrifood value chain.
AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: the problem of food security, writes Joseph Byrum.
The US Congress has issued a report on dangerous levels of heavy metals in baby food. But these substances can’t simply be regulated away, a molecular biologist writes.
Indoor agriculture is highly competitive and highly funded. Who’s leading the race? We spoke to Henry Gordon-Smith of urban ag consultancy Agritecture to find out.
We launched our new Clubhouse partnership with Food+Tech Connect in the best way possible: celebrating women innovators in food on International Women’s Day.
Japfa has partnered with AgFunder’s impact accelerator GROW to identify startups that can improve nutrition for billions of people – and help the industry emerge stronger from Covid-19.
It’s environmentally clean, growing at double digits, and able to increase the convenience of doorstep grocery delivery, writes Manuel Gonzalez.
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?