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.
While the number of women founders, leaders, and innovators in the agrifoodtech sector continues to grow, women voices in the industry remain few and far between. Here’s a directory to help you find them.
Networking groups may be a key way to help women landowners and farmers overcome persistent gender barriers particularly when it comes to adopting conservation practices, according to the new research ahead of International Women’s Day.
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.
A publicly available and editable list of women leaders in agriculture, started by Agrilyst CEO Allison Kopf, challenges event and conference organizers to increase gender representation in public discussions of the industry.
The Greater Sacramento Economic Council is attempting to carve out a piece of the tech scene just 90 miles to the south, and thanks to UC Davis and nearly 250,000 acres of farmland, that means agtech too.
The Indian farmer needs agtech innovation to address some of their key challenges, writes Hemendra Mathur.
Early stage resources for agtech startups continue to grow as Nuritas founder named Women of the Year and Syngenta launches a new challenge for artificial intelligence.
The idea for this week’s podcast came from Sanjeev Krishnan, founding partner at S2G Ventures, the Chicago-based food and agtech venture capital firm.
On International Women’s Day, AgFunderNews reporter Lauren Manning caught up with three female agtech entrepreneurs to find out what it’s like working in agtech.
2 Female Agtech Entrepreneurs were selected by their peers to receive investment from VilCap Investments and Radicle Capital.
The Ag Innovation Showcase, one of agtech’s first conferences, is in its seventh year, and will feature presentations from its highest number of women-owned startups.
The chief marketing officer discusses the risks of CEA, the crops we’ll grow indoors in the future, and how indoor agtech will change.
Find out the areas of agtech innovation Ankur Capital’s founder Ritu Verma thinks are primed for investment in India and beyond.
ThriveAgric has a target to provide $500 million in credit to 10 million smallholder farmers by 2027 and $1 billion to 20 million by 2050.
Here are some of highlights (and a few low lights😉) from 2023, plus some areas to watch in 2024, from designer probiotics to livestock methane reduction.
General Mills and Walmart partner for regenerative ag, grain-trading platform Bushel gets a grant, Italy back-pedals on cultivated meat ban.
Agtech startup Green Afro-Palms is on a mission to help smallholder farmers unlock the potential of palm oil in Ghana.
“Ninety percent of things don’t happen because people don’t ‘ask’. Female reflections as Grow-NY opens for applications.
Plus, Meati expands across the US & agronomy service Agrii invests in Drone Ag.
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International Fresh Produce Association launches year 3 of its produce accelerator