Tag: agroforestry

Meet the 10 startups chosen to pitch at GLOCAL’s Game Changers 2023

November 7, 2023

At its recent Game Changers LatAm Series 2023, GLOCAL unveiled the 10 companies that won awards for their agrifoodtech innovations.

Data snapshot: Climate and forestry solutions notably absent from Indonesia’s agrifoodtech investment landscape

August 30, 2023

Aquaculture and agribusiness marketplaces dominate Indonesia agrifoodtech investment this year, but climate tech needs more attention.

Brief: Pano AI raises $17m growth round to expand its wildfire detection technology

July 11, 2023

Pano AI says the Series A extension highlights the urgent need for more innovations around climate mitigation and adaptation.

Farmers ‘at forefront’ of decarbonizing agriculture but face huge ‘financial burden’: McKinsey

July 3, 2023

Agriculture must slash its emissions by nearly 80% by 2050; it will take the entire agrifood value chain to accomplish this.

A mini guide to agroforestry: what is it & how can it improve ag and fight climate change?

November 9, 2022

Agroforestry grows increasingly critical for fighting climate change, restoring biodiversity and boosting incomes and economies for rural communities.

Innovation hub AgriFutures grow^AG. plans to make Australia the agtech capital of the Southern Hemisphere

October 30, 2022

The growAG platform connects startups, researchers, investors and other key players with opportunities in Australia’s agtech industry.

Propagate raises $10m from AgFunder, others to help more farmers reap the benefits of agroforestry

October 24, 2022

Farms can boost biodiversity and income with agroforestry; Propagate wants to make that option more accessible to growers and landowners.

How Deep Science Ventures aims to build resiliency in tropical agriculture, starting with Costa Rica

October 12, 2022

A new tropical agriculture program focuses on technologies and processes that restore and regenerate soils and species rather than solely extract from them.

Meet the final pitch day winners of the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2022

September 6, 2022

Soil biotech, food waste, and sustainable beverages were among the winning concepts Latin American agrifoodtech startups pitched to an audience last month.

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.

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.

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.”

Brief: Walmart joins Canopy to remove at-risk forests from materials supply chain

October 6, 2021

By joining the CanopyStyle initiative, Walmart will impel its suppliers to use alternate fiber sources such as ag byproducts.

Agriculture produces just 1% of carbon credits, data suggests

September 28, 2021

Carbon credits generated by ag-related projects make up less than 1% of all issued credits, according to data from the University of Berkeley, California.

Brief: Amazon & The Nature Conservancy launch Brazil ‘agroforestry accelerator’

September 6, 2021

The US tech giant claims the scheme will restore 20,000 hectares of forest within three years and remove 10 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050.

5 ways agroforestry can work for your land

August 30, 2021

Agroforestry has a multitude of benefits in terms of soil health, water quality, and food security – so long as it is done right.

EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft, Rabobank announce first round of carbon credits with agroforestry startup reNature

August 19, 2021

ReNature worked with a Brazilian farmer cooperative to generate the credits in partnership with Rabobank’s carbon marketplace, Acorn – with Microsoft the buyer.

Can food systems really get to ‘net zero?’

July 26, 2021

‘Net zero by 2050’ has become the rallying cry for many agrifood businesses. Here are some of the ways they can make those aspirations into reality.

EU to launch carbon farming framework by end-2021 following two-year study

April 29, 2021

Carbon farming can “contribute significantly” to EU climate effort, the European Commission says after a two-year study into regenerative ag practices.

Gaming brand Razer launches $50m green fund, backs bamboo startup

April 26, 2021

The Singapore-based company has invested in The Nurturing Co as part of its wider ‘Go Green With Razer’ initiative, which aims for a 100% ‘carbon neutral’ organization by 2030.