Breaking: Applied Carbon rakes in $21.5m Series A to sequester carbon at scale via biochar
July 31, 2024
Funding will enable Applied Carbon to deploy a fleet of biochar machines across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
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Mez Foods turns to mesquite as skyrocketing cocoa prices drive interest in choc alternatives
June 14, 2024
“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.
BREAKING: Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is closing down
May 31, 2024
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.
Who’s investing in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers?
May 22, 2024
Mitigation receives about 90% of global public and private climate financing, which frequently sidelines efforts around adaptation.
Brief: ‘A fundamental quantum shift’ as agrifood corporates call for gov’t action to fix food system
May 13, 2024
Nestlé, Danone and others signed the Hope Farm Statement calling for the UK government to enact “a bold national food and farming strategy”
The climate change battle will be ‘won or lost’ on Scope 3 emissions. Here are the companies taking action
April 22, 2024
Scope 3 emissions can account for the bulk of a company’s carbon impact, and are typically also the hardest to track.
Futureproofing your Morning Joe? Atomo opens ‘beanless’ coffee roastery in Seattle
April 22, 2024
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.
OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’
April 16, 2024
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.
New AgFunder, ISF report highlights gaps and opportunities to invest in climate adaptation for smallholder farmers
April 9, 2024
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 Intelligence sued by ex-employees for failing to provide advance notice of mass layoffs
April 8, 2024
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.
International Fresh Produce Association launches year 3 of its produce accelerator
March 13, 2024
Innovators ready to scale up climate-smart technologies for the produce industry are encouraged to apply.
Brief: Cibus Capital lands $645m to invest in mid-market and late-stage agrifood companies
March 4, 2024
Cibus announced a $510 million close of Cibus Fund II and a $135 million close of its Cibus Enterprise Fund II.
BREAKING: Gro Intelligence lays off 60% of staff, secures some 11th hour funding
March 1, 2024
According to one industry source, Gro received “some money with a lot of conditions.”
Heat, salinity, drought… SaliCrop tackles abiotic stress trifecta with seed enhancement tech
February 29, 2024
Extensive field trials in Spain with leading commercial tomato varieties grown in open fields have delivered 10-17% increases in yield, claims SaliCrop.
Exclusive: Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence unable to make payroll, replaces founder with new CEO
February 23, 2024
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.
Inside the One Acre Fund’s plans to safeguard Africa’s smallholder farmers facing climate disaster
January 10, 2024
A new One Acre Fund program will act as a “resilience shield” for the 97% of smallholder farmers in Africa lacking insurance.
Data snapshot: Farmtech funding continues its upward climb in Southeast Asia ‘irrespective of the external financial climate’
November 29, 2023
Farmtech funding for Southeast Asia startups has steadily grown since 2018 despite the overall drop in VC dollars to the region.
Letter from Singapore: Connecting the dots between climate change and food security
November 27, 2023
Food security is top of mind in Singapore, which imports most of its food, but are policymakers connecting it to climate change?
Technology can’t solve everything but more Africa agrifoodtech investment is critical as climate change impacts and food insecurity worsen
September 25, 2023
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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