Breaking: Applied Carbon rakes in $21.5m Series A to sequester carbon at scale via biochar
Funding will enable Applied Carbon to deploy a fleet of biochar machines across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Funding will enable Applied Carbon to deploy a fleet of biochar machines across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
“We see the relatively undeveloped nature of the mesquite supply chain as both one of our biggest opportunities as a business and one of our biggest risks,” say Mez Foods cofounders Bob and Ben Schultz.
Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is calling it quits after failing to secure enough capital to stay afloat following a turbulent few months, AgFunderNews understands.
Mitigation receives about 90% of global public and private climate financing, which frequently sidelines efforts around adaptation.
Nestlé, Danone and others signed the Hope Farm Statement calling for the UK government to enact “a bold national food and farming strategy”
Scope 3 emissions can account for the bulk of a company’s carbon impact, and are typically also the hardest to track.
Atomo—a startup behind the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’—has opened a 33,547sq ft roastery in Seattle capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a year from upcycled date pits.
While a fair amount of work has gone into research on salt tolerant rice, there are “not many valid commercial options on the wheat side,” claims OlsAro.
A first-of-its-kind report by AgFunder and ISF Advisors, backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, highlights the pressing need to invest in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers.
Gro did not provide advance written notice of its mass layoffs as required under federal and state law, allege former employees in a proposed class action lawsuit.
Innovators ready to scale up climate-smart technologies for the produce industry are encouraged to apply.
Cibus announced a $510 million close of Cibus Fund II and a $135 million close of its Cibus Enterprise Fund II.
According to one industry source, Gro received “some money with a lot of conditions.”
Extensive field trials in Spain with leading commercial tomato varieties grown in open fields have delivered 10-17% increases in yield, claims SaliCrop.
CTO James Cariello has been named as the new CEO at the firm, which recently laid off 10% of its staff and has been trying to raise fresh capital through a convertible bond.
A new One Acre Fund program will act as a “resilience shield” for the 97% of smallholder farmers in Africa lacking insurance.
Farmtech funding for Southeast Asia startups has steadily grown since 2018 despite the overall drop in VC dollars to the region.
Food security is top of mind in Singapore, which imports most of its food, but are policymakers connecting it to climate change?
We’ve all felt the impacts of climate change this season but they’re especially pronounced in Africa; of the 20 nations ranked as most vulnerable to climate change, all but four are African. Meanwhile acute food insecurity has dramatically increased in the past year.
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