Virridy partners to improve water security in Africa through climate finance-based model
September 1, 2022
The partnership claims to already support close to five million people’s water supplies in Ethiopia and Kenya.
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How St. Louis cultivates collaboration between agtech and geospatial tech to strengthen food security
August 22, 2022
St. Louis is in many ways the point of intersection for the agtech and geospatial sectors when it comes to improving our global food system.
Q&A: Inside AgriCapture’s 50,000-plus-acre cover cropping program in the US
August 1, 2022
The carbon offset startup discusses its recent projects aiming to make regenerative ag practices more attainable and affordable for farmers.
Brief: Agreena acquires Hummingbird Technologies to ‘strengthen the integrity of carbon farming’
July 28, 2022
Agreena will bring Hummingbird’s remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology in-house to further scale and validate its carbon market.
Sr. Data Scientist
July 20, 2022
Trace Genomics has developed the first analytics engine that learns as it maps the living soil. Founded in 2015 to serve the farming community, Trace
Assembly Technician
July 19, 2022
About Us Sentera is connecting the agriculture industries to revolutionary solutions which not only capture big data but manage it and empower individuals and businesses
The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake
July 7, 2022
Also: Israeli foodtech startup Phytolon landed $14.5 million, and two food delivery firms were raided by EU authorities over antitrust concerns.
Virridy wants to tackle water insecurity in a world still dependent on irrigation for food
July 5, 2022
The US startup recently raised $5.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate development and adoption of its water management sensors.
The Week in Agrifoodtech: Little Leaf Farms bags $300m, Wonder lands $340m to cook meals curbside
June 16, 2022
Plus: alt-cheesemakers raise new funds, delivery ‘bots head to college campuses, and IKEA strikes a deal with indoor ag startup Infarm.
Q&A: How Harry Stebbings-backed Pachama is using to tech to improve forest carbon markets
June 3, 2022
Fresh off a Series B fundraise, Pachama discusses how its technology could make forest carbon markets less fragmented and more productive.
iFarmer banks $2.1m pre-Series A to strengthen ag supply chains in Bangladesh
May 30, 2022
It will use the capital injection to expand its geographic footprint, build out its supply chain capabilities, and introduce insurance products.
Pachama nets $55m Series B to bring accountability to forest carbon markets
May 5, 2022
The San Francisco-based company’s platform leverages remote monitoring and AI to bring better data and more transparent accounting to forest carbon markets.
Crop scientists must seize upon every new technology to future-proof food systems
April 4, 2022
Crop scientists at facilities like the new Future Seeds gene bank are making use of genomic sequencing, AI, and ML to enhance our pool of agricultural resources, Joe Tohme writes.
An eventful week for African agtech as 2 startups raise close to $100m
March 25, 2022
Nigeria’s ThriveAgric and Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raised close to $100 million between them this week in a watershed moment for African agrifoodtech.
Brief: Greenlight Biosciences completes $1.2bn merger to list on Nasdaq, closes up 5%
February 4, 2022
Greenlight Biosciences develops RNA products for agriculture and human health, including in the Covid-19 vaccine arena.
How significant is the Bayer-Microsoft deal for agtech? The response
February 1, 2022
A few months ago, Bayer and Microsoft announced a partnership. Our article about it went quasi-viral and spurred a number of responses. Here’s what the industry said.
In Kenya, Apollo Agriculture is building a pathway to commercial farming
January 24, 2022
The Kenyan agtech venture is helping small farmers shift toward sustainable commercial farming with access to seeds, finacing and markets.
With a fresh $40m in the bank, TerraMagna is bringing ‘buy now, pay later’ to Brazilian farmers
January 24, 2022
TerraMagna is one of several startups in Brazil looking to improve farmers’ liquidity.
Brief: Global cropland has grown by a million square kilometers since 2000
December 24, 2021
Global cropland has expanded 9% over the past 20 years, with Africa and South America seeing the greatest gains – and half coming at the expense of “natural vegetation and tree cover.”
OKO Finance is delivering crop insurance to cushion Mali’s farmers from climate change
December 21, 2021
OKO Finance offers crop insurance to smallholder farmers in Mali – one of the few fintech companies focusing on the landlocked West African country.
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