At this year’s AgTech NEXT event in St. Louis, Missouri, panelists discussed the different ways to deal with “a food system in crisis.”
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. While there are calls for developing nations to seek compensation from the world’s biggest emitters at COP27, developing nations must also look to technology to mitigate the impacts of climate change – or adapt.
Improving soil health, controlling erosion and boosting yields are the main motivators for using cover crops on US farmland.
Funding will help scale the startup’s climate-smart nitrogen technology that uses just air, water and renewables-based electricity to produce nitrogen.
Solis Agrosciences’ CEO discusses the future of biotech, role of farmers, and how her experience as a woman and an immigrant has informed her work.
A new tropical agriculture program focuses on technologies and processes that restore and regenerate soils and species rather than solely extract from them.
Gramophone has partnered with Yara Ventures-backed Jai Kisan to add loans to its full stack portfolio of services for India’s smallholder farmers.
Inari uses gene-editing tools to enhance the natural diversity of seeds while enabling higher crop yields with fewer inputs.
“We don’t have 15 years to figure this problem out,” the Nowadays co-founder and CEO says of animal agriculture’s role in the climate crisis.
Agrifood companies selected for the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding chose Yard Stick as their official carbon measurement partner.
A 20,000-acre pilot project for regeneratively grown wheat as well as several other initiatives are in place to help King Arthur reach its goal.
Farmerline claims to have reached over 1.5 million farmers in 35 countries via its Mergdata platform.
Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya collectively secured close to 90% of agrifoodtech investments in 2021, according to the Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report by AgFunder.
The longtime entrepreneur describes the realities of founding a cultivated meat company, and offers insights for other founders and CEOs in the space.
Connecting agtech startups with creative capital with benefits beyond financial gain is vital to the long-term success of the sector — and the planet.
The San Francisco startup says it has found a way to bring down the cost of cultivated meat manufacturing with biotechnology and machine learning.
Growers may also see “further downward price pressure” on phosphates and potash, though the outlook is less sunny for nitrogen.
Protestors took issue with some of the key sponsors — global food businesses accused of greenwashing and using regenerative agriculture for marketing.
Alt meat, seafood, dairy, and egg companies can use the reporting frameworks to standardize their ESG impact for investors and consumers.
Puna Bio will launch its seed treatment that leverages the power of extremophiles — bacteria that can make plants more resilient to extreme conditions.
