As lawmakers, court battles, and consumer demand continue to push conventional chemical inputs out of the picture, a major market opportunity for bio-based inputs has
Winner of the 2019 AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, Sound Agriculture is developing natural alternatives to synthetic fertilizers.
“What is foodtech? Isn’t that delivery? Delivery is so done!” That’s what Nadia El Hadery remembers people saying back in 2015 when she held the
A glitzy red carpet’s worth of celebrity investors contributed to Impossible Foods’ latest round as well as Singapore state fund Temasek as the company plans to scale in a big way.
AgFunder and its collaborators KK&P and The New Food Economy are excited to announce that S2G Ventures has become a sponsor of Money Where Our Mouths Are (MWOMA), an investigation into the funding gaps for female entrepreneurs in the agrifood industry.
Elo Life Systems, the food-focused subsidiary of the recently listed gene-editing group Precision Biosciences, is focused on developing food crops with nutritionally-improved characteristics.
A lot of the questions surrounding the technology are not really scientific but about what this technology is feeding into: power politics, the changing structure of agriculture and smallholder farmers, and long-term effects.
Over a quarter of the world population eat food each day that’s been through Bühler equipment in some shape or form. And in some food segments, the market share is even higher with 65% of the world’s grain processed through Bühler products.
Last month, Manuel Gonzalez announced plans to raise a new foodtech fund called Global RIFF (Revolution in Food Fund). We caught up with him to find out more about the investment model and the food tech categories he’s most excited about.
AFN spoke to Elham Al Qasim, acting CEO of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, to discuss the ins and outs.
Nolan Paul, Partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures and ex-head of R&D Strategy and Emerging Technology at leading produce grower Driscoll’s is offering his thoughts on how the agritech sector is developing ahead of his speaking slot at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco next month.
Earlier this month, a Russian agtech startup called Intterra entered into a partnership with global agribusiness Syngenta to use its digital platform in Russia, connecting more than 100 farmers across 2 million hectares (nearly 5 million acres) of cropland in 2019.
When consumers can understand just bit more about what biotech is, how it works, and how it relates to them personally, they’re supportive of GMO, according to Jennifer Armen, vice president at Okanagan Specialty Fruits.
Ecosia, a German startup with an internet search engine, today, has brought in enough revenues to enable it to plant 50 million trees. This equates to the removal of 2.5 million tonnes of Co2 from the atmosphere.
Many of us take for granted that we can enjoy fresh fruit year-round and probably have no clue just how much of a logistical feat
As the cannabis industry continues to expand, growers are looking for ways to increase crop yield and quality.
Sugar has been a controversial subject in recent years, with many researchers and health experts suggesting that the sweet ingredient poses a bigger dietary threat than certain fats or cholesterol.
Rabobank recently announced the expansion of its food and agriculture innovation team in North America with the appointment of Anne Greven as the global co-head of F&A Innovation. We caught up with her and head of TERRA Eline Boot to find out more about the platform.
Broadly they’re hoping for more collaboration, better tech solutions built with farmers, increased understanding of food’s role in climate change mitigation, more realism in funding, and greater diversity.
Innova Memphis, a Tennessee-based venture firm, has announced the winner of its first $100,000 Row Crop Challenge powered by AgLaunch as part of the Farm
