Ceres, a nonprofit founded on the principle that sustainability makes good business sense, has assessed efforts by some of the world’s largest companies to eliminate deforestation and found most of them could do better.
The oversubscribed seed round will go towards scaling Jellatech’s proprietary cell-ag process and working towards commercialization.
Conservation tech is a small-but-vital slice of agrifoodtech investment in Latin America to fight climate change and boost planetary health.
Agriculture must slash its emissions by nearly 80% by 2050; it will take the entire agrifood value chain to accomplish this.
Agribusiness marketplaces & fintech and eGrocery were the top investment categories for Latin America agrifoodtech in 2022.
While many commentators have likened carbon offsetting to the Wild West of agriculture for a while now, the cracks are now starting to show with the fall from grace of key certifying body Verra and other questionable initiatives. I discussed this and more with panelists at the recent Hack Summit.
Climate biotech startup Living Carbon says its “photosynthesis-enhanced trees” can grow twice as fast as other trees and capture more carbon.
From widespread soil degradation in Africa to Iowa’s quickly disappearing “black gold,” the numbers show how urgent the world’s soil situation is.
The meat and dairy sector “performs very poorly on three biodiversity metrics” that are key to the Paris Agreement for Nature.
The Seattle startup also launched its first beanless coffee products to consumers.
Fresh off a Series B fundraise, Pachama discusses how its technology could make forest carbon markets less fragmented and more productive.
The San Francisco-based company’s platform leverages remote monitoring and AI to bring better data and more transparent accounting to forest carbon markets.
NFTs and other “web 3.0” tools are how the Brazilian startup plans to digitalize carbon credits and preserve the Amazon rainforest.
Subsidies are “driving the destruction of ecosystems and species extinction,” according to a new report from The B Team and Business For Nature.
Global cropland has expanded 9% over the past 20 years, with Africa and South America seeing the greatest gains – and half coming at the expense of “natural vegetation and tree cover.”
The UK startup will use its insect farms to turn food waste from Morrisons supermarkets into feed for hens to produce ‘carbon-neutral’ eggs.
By joining the CanopyStyle initiative, Walmart will impel its suppliers to use alternate fiber sources such as ag byproducts.
The Danish startup runs what it calls “the smallest chewing gum factory in the world” – but with the new funding, that factory is set to get a little bigger.
Although many agrifood corporates will miss a key 2020 deforestation target, some are making meaningful progress towards sustainability.
Announcements are coming thick and fast out of Climate Week NYC as a range of organizations take advantage of the spotlight to push forward their environmental agendas.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets