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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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The World’s Fastest Growing Protein Sector is Facing, and Creating, Serious Environmental Risks, and It’s Not Beef

June 5, 2019 6:26 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

You may not realize that seafood is the fastest-growing protein category, with an annual growth rate surpassing that of all land-based animal meat combined. But the fish farming industry is in need of innovation to mitigate and reduce environmental concerns. Read more →

Startup Corner

FoodShot Announces Winners of Soil 3.0 Challenge inc Trace Genomics & Carbon Sequestration Measurement

June 6, 2019 8:59 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

The multistakeholder investment platform catalyzed $3m in equity investment soil microbiome testing startup Trace Genomics and $535k in grant funding for three research projects. Read more →

Investor Insight

Farm Tech & Supply Chain Tech Drive $1.6bn in Funding to European AgriFood Tech Startups in 2018

May 23, 2019 11:58 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Europe's agrifood tech ecosystem raised just 9% of the funding that went to foodtech and agtech startups globally in 2018. But deal activity increased 23% as agrifood tech startups in the region closed a similar number of deals as in the US. Read more →

Frankly Speaking

Why We’ve Launched GROW, a New Singapore Agri-FoodTech Accelerator with Rocket Seeder

June 4, 2019 8:37 pm | By Michael Dean

At the heart of the ASEAN region, Singapore is in a unique position when it comes to creating an ecosystem for startup innovation and success. Read more →

Research & Data

AgTech Landscape 2019: 1,600+ Startups Innovating on the Farm and in the ‘Messy Middle’

June 4, 2019 3:37 pm | By Seana Day

It’s been a wild ride watching the agtech landscape explode these past five years, writes Seana Day, who's now tracking 1,600+ startups globally and today releases her latest marketmap. Read more →

Technology Corner

Regenerative Agriculture is Getting More Mainstream But How Scalable is it?

May 28, 2019 7:18 pm | By Emily Payne

Dubbed “beyond sustainable,” regenerative agricultural methodologies seek to add to the soil through a self-nourishing ecological system that benefits the environment in the process. Read more →

Podcast

Future Food: A Moonshot Idea of Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK’s YFood Shares Her Food Tech Journey

May 16, 2019 9:27 am | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

“What is foodtech? Isn’t that delivery? Delivery is so done!”

That’s what Nadia El Hadery remembers people saying back in 2015 when she held the first-ever London Food Tech Week.

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