With 2,000+ experts on hand, Partners in Food Solutions looks to boost Africa’s food security through food processing
The PFS consortium shares technical and business expertise with entrepreneurial food companies in 11 African countries.
The PFS consortium shares technical and business expertise with entrepreneurial food companies in 11 African countries.
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Plus: Science Based Targets initiative’s new rules for Scope 3 emissions are causing more than a little chaos.
The Maia Farms & Ecoation growing system for mycelium and fresh produce can make 700kg of food a year in a device the size of a wardrobe.
Also: farm labor management platform Seso raises $26 million, L’Oreal backs sustainable pigment producer.
Funding into Australian agrifoodtech startups fell 33% last year according to AgFunder data… But it could have been worse: global agrifoodtech funding fell 49% over the same period.
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Agribusiness worldwide accounts for 70% of the world’s water usage in addition to contributing enormously to pollution.
Plus, meet the Internet of the Forest.
Plus: Plant-based “NotDogs” from Oscar Mayer and NotCo, John Deere’s “right to repair” case drags on, new meat labeling beef in Iowa.
For the second year in a row, the sector saw an increase in VC investment despite an overall decline in agrifoodtech funding.
Plus: Syngenta develops new bioinsecticide, layoffs at Meati, and Miruku raises $5m for molecular farming.
Despite its ubiquity, attractive amino acid profile and functional bona fides, RuBisCO has not become the plant protein of choice for the food industry. Israeli startup Day 8 hopes to change that…
Billed as “the most nutrient-dense protein source on the planet,” Superbrewed Food’s Non GMO bacterial biomass is 85% protein with meaningful levels of vitamin B12.
DisSolves has developed clean-label edible films that dissolve rapidly in hot or cold water, milk, and juice, without leaving any residue.
Swiggy makes more cuts to its workforce, France contemplates a ban on cultivated meat.
MFL combines solid state fermentation technology with an AI-driven computational platform to create clean label savory ingredients that give depth, body, and meaty flavors to plant-based foods.
A spinoff from VTT in Finland, Enifer is targeting human food, petfood, and aquaculture markets with its mycoprotein, produced from a fungal strain first commercialized in the 1970s.
Mush Foods is launching its 50CUT mycelium blends in the US market following a successful launch of its b2b ‘meat-plus’ concept in Israel.