“We’re not trying to replace agriculture or even compete with it; we’re just closing the gap between demand and agricultural supply,” says Food Brewer CEO Christian Schaub.
The “investment towards future partnership” will help transform the way cocoa is produced in a market where demand is expected to dramatically exceed supply in the coming years, claims the startup.
Despite their green credentials, smallholder farmers in the global south face significant challenges under new EU regulations such as EUDR.
“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.
Israeli startup Kokomodo has emerged from stealth armed with $750k from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub to produce cocoa via plant cell culture.
Cocoa prices are now 4-5x higher than they were when Voyage Foods started out in 2021, which makes the case for alternatives increasingly compelling, says Adam Maxwell.
Cellular agriculture startups aim to solve agrifood’s biggest sustainability problems. But smallholders must be part of the solution, writes Saron Berhane.
They’re hoping the insights they derive will revolutionize outdoor production, too.
Olam set up a “war room” of top execs to tackle Covid-19’s immediate impact on its business. But it’s counting on digitization as a longer term fix.
The Singapore-based agribusiness became the first-ever recipient of a ‘Digital Loan’ based on Boston Consulting Group’s digital maturity index last year.
To mobilize the innovative power of the remote sensing sector for cocoa, the Rainforest Alliance recently announced the Ag-tech developer challenge – a call to remote-sensing, high-tech and earth-observation companies.
