From insects to indoor greens, Australian startups demonstrate the potential for novel farming systems at home and abroad.
If you’re farming edible insects for protein, scale is the name of the game, says Singapore-based startup Insectta. But if you’re mining bugs for higher-value functional ingredients, even a tiny startup can potentially compete on the global stage with the right technology.
“We’ve got a groundswell of young people who are trained in molecular biology,” says SynBioBeta founder Dr John Cumbers: “They’re not scared of GMOs. But they are scared of the environmental impacts of climate change and the unsustainability of our consumer culture.”
Venture builder Enviu has released a report after surveying Kenyan farmers to get their take on the regenerative ag movement.
This year’s AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator includes startups focused on planetary health, climate-smart agriculture and decarbonization, among other areas.
While opportunistic food marketers are already jumping on the ‘regenerative ag’ bandwagon, we need more data to define what this means for individual crops before growers can see a clear business case for adopting new practices, says KIND Snacks.
The N-OVATOR program in 2023 opens to all Pivot Bio customers hoping to replace synthetic nitrogen and bring down on-farm emissions.
Around Latin America and the Caribbean, startups are using technology to prevent, avoid or upcycle food waste up and down the supply chain.
Intello Labs is a Gurugram-based Agritech start-up founded in 2016 by IIT Bombay alumn. It taps the power of AI, ML, and computer vision to
Copper has been used as a fungicide since the 1800s with no pathogen resistance. VM Agritech builds on this ancient solution with a broad-spectrum, copper-and-zinc-based fungicide.
The now-defunct startup’s former VP Chris Cerveny says everything from timing to funding to how automation gets deployed can impact a farm’s lifespan.
Investment from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and the OCP Group will enable Bidra to expand the scope of its agrifood fund for climate startups.
At Fyto, we are partnering with farmers to build a sustainable food system at a global scale. Since launching out of MIT in 2019, we
Through a novel patent-pending process, ARC Ento Tech is turning waste into animal feeds, fertilizers and a reductant that could replace coking coal.
The soil carbon project which already has 2700 farmers on board will help farmers adopt climate smart ag practices while connecting them to carbon markets.
As a Fertilizer Mixer, you will be responsible for the mix of fertilizer and different products at the Irrigation Room department at our state-of-the-art facility
While it is true, as the saying goes, that ‘healthy soils produce healthy plants’, the question is: “What creates healthy soils?” asks John Kempf.
If crickets—which pack an attractive nutritional punch with a low environmental impact—are going to gain traction in the alternative protein market, two things must happen, says Aspire Food Group. Costs must come down and supplies of consistent, high-quality raw material must go up.
PepsiCo has unveiled plans to pump $216 million into regenerative agriculture projects spanning 3 million acres of farmland in the US.
Intello Labs is a Gurugram-based Agritech start-up founded in 2016 by IIT Bombay alumn. It taps the power of AI, ML, and computer vision to
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