How will artificial intelligence impact the future of farming? From disease and pest forecasting to precision insurance, SP Ventures explores AI in agriculture.
Could dormant genes in staple crops such as rice be reactivated so they can grow in salty land, or even directly in the ocean?
CH4 Global, a startup dedicated to slashing methane emissions from ruminant livestock using red seaweed-based supplements, has announced the first close ($29m) of a $45m series B round.
Africa’s smallholder farmers need drip irrigation and improved post-harvest storage, but investors are more interested in AI, CEA, blockchain and cultivated meat, says Prosper Chikomo.
French biotech startup Neoplants has come up with a novel approach to tackle a class of indoor air pollutants called volatile organic compounds.
Louisa Burwood-Taylor caught up with Lavoro Agro CEO Ruy Cunha in São Paulo to explore how it is helping farmers boost productivity as farmland becomes more expensive.
Which agrifoodtech segments are ripe for investment in Latin America? Louisa Burwood-Taylor catches up with Roberto Vitón at The Yield Lab Latam.
Louisa Burwood-Taylor heads to São Paulo, Brazil, to explore the latest developments in foodtech and agtech.
Omnivore has announced the first close of its third fund, with $150m to pump into India startups aiming to make farming more profitable, resilient, and sustainable.
Agtech startup Green Afro-Palms is on a mission to help smallholder farmers unlock the potential of palm oil in Ghana.
This week, Omeat emerged from stealth with an ‘elegant’ solution to scaling cultivated meat; UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat finally got the green light to sell cultivated chicken in the US, and drone startup Guardian Agriculture raised $20m.
Guardian Agriculture has raised $20m in a series A round to expand its autonomous drone technology to farms across the US and ramp-up manufacturing of its SC1 aircraft.
Investment in agrifoodtech will be key to the stable, sustainable and prosperous development of Africa, says Saron Berhane.
Australian synthetic biology startup Number 8 Bio has raised A$1.8m ($1.2m) in a pre-seed round to fund a novel approach to cutting methane emissions from animal agriculture.
Rice and wheat are harvested with combine harvesters. Yet strawberries are still picked by hand at a time when growers are facing rising labor costs and serious labor shortages. So why aren’t we seeing more mechanization being deployed for specialty crops?
2022 was a grim year for agrifoodtech investment, with funding down 44% year-on-year globally, in part driven by an 81% drop in funding in China. So why did funding fall off a cliff and what can we expect in 2023 and beyond?
Unlike almonds, which rely on honeybees for pollination, a dwindling and increasingly expensive resource, pistachio crops are pollinated by wind, which is both abundant and free-of-charge. So why are some growers turning to artificial pollination?
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.
Clean Crop Technologies tackles food waste with cold plasma tech, says CEO Dan White: “We target applications where we can achieve the same or similar decontamination as thermal pasteurization without harming quality.”
Israeli startup Plantae Bioscience uses CRISPR gene editing techniques to slash levels of bitter-tasting saponins in yellow peas, addressing a major pain point in the plant protein industry.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets