AFN’s top 20 guest articles in 2020
December 28, 2020
AFN regularly runs analysis, opinion, and expert commentary from guest authors. Here are the 20 most-read guest pieces we published this year.
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AFN’s last minute holiday gift ideas (of course they’re about food!)
December 24, 2020
If you’ve been so head-down focused on just getting to the end of 2020 that you forgot all about holiday gift planning, AFN has you covered with last-minute ideas that you can send and they can eat.
5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020
December 24, 2020
A year like no other… But while Covid-19 has been catastrophic for the agrifood sector in many regards, it has also put agrifoodtech into the limelight like never before.
Startup Spotlight: Soos is using sound waves to tackle male chick culling in the egg industry
December 23, 2020
Israel’s Soos uses sound waves to transform male chicken embryos – which are typically culled once hatched – into commercially viable egg-laying females.
How to indulge healthily this festive season
December 23, 2020
Christmas sees many of us overdo the food and drink, so it’s not always the healthiest time of year. Here are a few nutritionist’s tips for keeping in corpore sano.
Alchemy Foodtech closes Thai Union-led bridge round, eyes China expansion
December 21, 2020
The Singaporean startup wants to tackle Asia’s ‘fast-growing diabetes epidemic’ with its specialty ingredients that counter the ill effects of refined carbohydrates.
Agrifoodtech firms are flocking to Singapore, with Perfect Day the latest to land
December 20, 2020
The city-state’s trade minister predicts “many other companies” will follow Perfect Day and others setting up R&D and manufacturing facilities there.
Xingsheng raises $700m from JD as group buying faces food industry backlash
December 18, 2020
The Changsha-based platform allows communities to band together to purchase fresh produce in bulk. But suppliers and supermarkets say the model’s stealing their business.
‘Mammal-free milk’ startup TurtleTree Labs raises $6.2m pre-Series A funding
December 17, 2020
The Singapore-based startup is expanding beyond breastmilk for babies “to address the nutritional needs of our elderly and adults,” says CEO Fengru Lin.
Delivering the goods: Food supply chain tech market map & predictions for 2021
December 16, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic thrust food supply chain tech into the spotlight in a way that none of us could have anticipated.
Tencent, others plow $15m+ into ag automator FJ Dynamics
December 16, 2020
The Shenzhen-based startup – which produces autonomous rice transplanters, among other things – is also backed by drone company DJI and automaker Dongfeng.
Arya banks $21m in Quona-led Series B to boost financial inclusion for India’s farmers
December 15, 2020
Delhi-based Arya, which provides grain storage and loans to smallholders, is fintech investor Quona Capital’s second ag finance deal.
Temasek acquires micro-irrigation firm Rivulis
December 15, 2020
The Singapore sovereign fund’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Israeli company is just the latest sign of its increasingly hard focus on agrifoodtech.
Goldman, Tencent-backed Missfresh banks $306m from Chinese state-linked funds
December 14, 2020
The e-grocer – which was China’s top-funded agrifood startup in 2019 – raised $495 million for its Series F round earlier this year.
Syngenta partners with Sound Ag to launch ‘bio-inspired’ crop input in China
December 11, 2020
The duo will commercialize the US startup’s “green chemistry” product that helps plants use fertilizer more efficiently through microbes.
Maw & more: Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range
December 11, 2020
Hong Kong’s Avant will expand its focus beyond traditional Chinese cuisine with new products tailored to Western markets.
The 8 F’s of Indian agritech investing
December 10, 2020
Two Indian venture investors offer a breakdown of the country’s rapidly evolving agritech ecosystem from a product perspective.
Mitsubishi joins Mosa Meat’s second Series B close at $20m
December 9, 2020
The Japanese conglomerate’s extensive networks could help Mosa Meat make its mark in the food and retail industries – both in Asia, and farther afield.
Covid-19 & shifting regional relations put agrifoodtech top of mind for UAE
December 8, 2020
Abu Dhabi has been looking at ways to produce more of its food closer to home in light of the pandemic, geopolitical flux, and advances in agtech.
Singapore offers $9m boost to blockchain projects, starting with farmer finance
December 8, 2020
Trade, logistics, and supply chain management are among the other areas to be targeted by the new government-backed initiative.
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