Tag: climate

Grow-NY wants to award $3m to agrifoodtech startups focused on the future of food and farming

June 16, 2022

Startups can apply until July 1 for the chance of winning the $1M top prize that Grow-NY will award in November.

Data Snapshot: European climate investors are under-investing in agrifoodtech

June 15, 2022

Climate investors may want to take a closer look at emerging opportunities in vertical farming. Or insect farms. Or pea milk. Or vegan leather. In fact, there’s a long list of agrifood technologies that are climate-positive investments, according to new research from AgFunder and Invest-NL.

McCain launches regenerative agriculture project in South Africa

June 10, 2022

This is McCain’s second “Farm of the Future,” after noticing promising results from its first in Canada, which saw a 16% decline in use of synthetic fertilizer.

REPORT: Shaky e-Grocery dominates $9bn in European AgriFoodTech investing while climate tech lags

June 8, 2022

Climate-impactful categories were left behind in agrifoodtech investment in Europe in 2021 with over 40% of the total going to the eGrocery category, reveals a new report from AgFunder, F&A Next and Invest-NL.

How a fruit producer is adapting to climate change with genetics

May 5, 2022

IFG and other fruit breeders are racing against time to create new, climate-resilient varieties, the company’s CEO tells AFN.

Australia can still become a world leader in climate action

May 2, 2022

A recent roundtable involving several of the country’s ag thought leaders – now published as a white paper – explored how the country’s farming sector can help us get to net zero.

Earth Day 2022 calls on us to ‘invest in our planet.’ The agrifoodtech community is on it 👍

April 22, 2022

The theme of Earth Day 2022 is “invest in our planet.” In the agrifoodtech community, we’re taking it literally – and must push governments to do the same.

5 African climate-smart agriculture investors helping close a $106bn climate finance gap

April 22, 2022

For Earth Day 2022, we explore some of Africa’s ecosystem enablers working to support and finance climate-smart agriculture startups.

The Ukraine crisis shows climate stability & biodiversity are crucial to long-term food security

April 12, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine has damaged an already weakened post-Covid global food system. It has also highlighted the vulnerabilities of that system’s interconnectedness, write FAIRR’s Helena Wright and Alexander Burr.

Brief: New IPCC report says time’s running out to meet emissions targets – but food & ag can help

April 5, 2022

Food and ag offer significant emissions reduction opportunities; but only if changes are made to farming, eating, and everything in between, the report states.

Climate tech will become the next big VC thesis for Latin America

March 15, 2022

The region is still not among the top destinations for climate tech capital, despite its huge potential.

Here’s how the CEOs of Bayer, Cargill & 2 agtech startups would spend Elon Musk’s $6bn for world hunger

February 15, 2022

Local language services for farmers, enhanced capital access, and regenerative ag are just some of the options.

EXCLUSIVE: Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Nash join forces on new climate change documentary

February 14, 2022

As Michael Nash prepares to start filming Climate Refugees 2, we caught up with him and Leonardo DiCaprio’s father George to discuss his novel approach to covering the climate crisis that the DiCaprios are executive producing.

Brief: USDA commits $1bn to ‘climate-smart commodities’

February 8, 2022

The agency will fund pilot projects to produce commodities “using farming, ranching or forestry practices that reduce emissions or sequester carbon.”

Why AgFunder invested in Kula Bio

January 27, 2022

Soil microbial products for farmers have typically been unreliable. Kula Bio has changed that, writes AgFunder’s Rob Leclerc.

Q&A: AFEX’s $100m bond aims to unlock climate-smart capital for Nigeria’s ag sector

January 14, 2022

The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.

COP26 produced a ‘yoyo of feelings’ about agrifood’s climate role

November 11, 2021

The overwhelming feedback from COP26 has been one of mixed emotions as delegates tried to grapple with announcements and figure out their impact on agrifood.

Supply chain overtaking ag, land use as main source of food emissions: FAO

November 9, 2021

Pre- and post-production supply chain processes are already the main contributor to agrifood-related GHG emissions in advanced economies, a new study says.