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For Lentera Africa, remote work is the future of farming on the continent

“The potential for remote farming is huge,” says CEO Moses Kimani.

Agrifoodtech innovation doesn’t happen in the boardroom, but in the field: Thai Wah CEO

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Bioplastics firm RWDC raises $95m; funds for mammal-free milk

Perfeggt readies its chicken-less egg alternative with $2.8m fundraise

Sizing up America’s Thanksgiving food waste problem

EXCLUSIVE: Optimum Agriculture backs The Yield Lab LatAm to fuel region’s agtech growth

How shorter crops could give farming a longer life

Data Snapshot: Agrifoodtech’s epicenter shifted farther east in H1 – but US still rules the roost

Zebu Investment Partners is supporting African agriculture from ‘dirt to dinner table’

EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Bioplastics firm RWDC raises $95m; funds for mammal-free milk

Perfeggt readies its chicken-less egg alternative with $2.8m fundraise

How shorter crops could give farming a longer life

Data Snapshot: Agrifoodtech’s epicenter shifted farther east in H1 – but US still rules the roost

FOOD TECH

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Novozymes wants your help to accelerate protein’s fungal future

Brief: Impossible Foods brings total funding to $2bn with new $500m raise

Nectar, Goodmylk backed by Telus’ $100m ‘responsible agriculture’ fund

ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round

STARTUP FUNDING

Indian horti-platform Fasal scores $4m for Southeast Asia push

Amara raises $12m for ‘nutrient-dense’ plant-based baby food

Agtech innovation will be key to Kenya’s Covid-19 economic recovery

FBN’s $300m Series G with Fidelity, ADM brings ‘validation’ to oft-controversial company

AGTECH

Brief: Local Bounti completes $1.1bn SPAC merger to become latest listed CEA company

Cows, culture(d meat) & capitalism

Asia will lead agrifood’s ‘future of breakthrough innovations,’ says Cargill strategy chief

UPDATE: Bayer inks new digital ag data infrastructure deal with Microsoft: how significant is it?

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Addressing the ‘cow in the room’: Applications open for 2022 GROW Impact Accelerator

Data Snapshot: Bowery’s $300m round tops H1 2021 Novel Farming Systems deals

Bite Ninja raises $4m seed round. Here’s why AgFunder invested

IGS banks $58m to cement its place as the John Deere of vertical farming

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

Brief: Robo-delivery startup Nuro raises $600m from Google, Kroger

Investor Q&A: Why Toyota Ventures invested in Burro’s farm robots

Botmaker Burro banks $11m Series A funding in Toyota, S2G-led round

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Brief: JBS to acquire cultivated meat company in $100m investment

Israel’s Imagindairy closes $13m seed round to commercialize cow-free milk proteins

Temasek unveils foodtech platform & innovation center; partners with ADM

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Freshly funded AgroUrbana could bring more sustainable vertical farming to Latin America

UAE indoor farmer Pure Harvest nets $65m to fund Asia expansion

Brief: AeroFarms & Spring Valley terminate $1.2bn SPAC deal

Norway’s OptoScale nets $4.1m to grow its fish farm monitoring tech

REGENERATIVE AG

How to avoid COP26: a net-zero pledge & replanting fail

Bioenergy Devco raises $100m to build anaerobic digesters across North America

Brief: McDonald’s joins PepsiCo as founding partner of AgMission carbon initiative, commits $5m

WOMEN

HerVest’s digital savings app gives Nigeria’s female farmers a financial on-ramp

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AFN Africa: Investing in knowledge & information to accelerate innovation in African agriculture

Q&A: How Pula is breaking through crop insurance barriers to protect Africa’s farmers

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