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Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more

February 23, 2018 Nina Sparling Leave a comment

Benson Hill Biosystems patents CRISPR 3.0 while Tyson Foods looks to accelerators for innovation plus more in our weekly brief.

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The Crop Trust Raises $300m of $850m Target to Safeguard Global Biodiversity

May 17, 2016 Louisa Burwood-Taylor 1 Comment

AgFunderNews caught up with Cierra Martin and Hannes Dempewolf of The Crop Trust, an international organization working to safeguard crop diversity forever, to find out more about its work, and its fundraising initiative.

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60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now!

February 13, 2019 10:01 am | By AgFunder

Voting will close at 5 pm PT on February 28. The winners will be exclusively announced at the ReThink Agri-Food Innovation Week in San Francisco on March 20 at a special networking evening bridging the World Agri-Tech and the Future Food-Tech Summits. Read more →

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Woman-Led Midwest Angel Investment Firm iiM Invests $2.4m in 6 AgriFood Tech Startups

January 31, 2019 10:29 am | By Lauren Manning and Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Kansas City-based angel investment firm iiM (Innovation in Motion) has invested in a variety of early-stage agrifood tech startup companies covering everything from a bio-based plastic alternative to oral vaccines for livestock and companion animals. Read more →

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Food Tech Startup Spotlight: Noluma’s Innovative Packaging is Reducing Risk of Milk Degradation

January 30, 2019 3:33 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Noluma has developed a unique technology that measures the light protection of packaging as a function of its effects on the product contents by placing a marker ingredient in a solution inside a test package, which is then exposed to intense light. Read more →

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It’s Time to Plant the Seeds of Growth in Sustainable Agriculture

February 5, 2019 10:47 am | By Multiple Contributors

The Boston Consulting Group offers advice to large agribusineses in meeting consumer demand for sustainably grown food and offers some thoughts around defining sustainability. Read more →

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Tag Archives: biodiversity

Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more

The Crop Trust Raises $300m of $850m Target to Safeguard Global Biodiversity

FoodTech, Agriculture, Technology and Investment