Blockchain in agrifood: A great opportunity… disguised as a trend?
Blockchain has much potential, but viewing it as a ‘trend’ could lead some agrifood businesses to make suboptimal decisions about its implementation.
Blockchain has much potential, but viewing it as a ‘trend’ could lead some agrifood businesses to make suboptimal decisions about its implementation.
Syngenta Ventures was one of the earliest corporate VC initiatives dedicated to agriculture. Shubang Shankar talks with AFN about the group’s priorities and opportunities.
Economic and retail data may help to explain why hydroponic lettuce has some way to go before it can compete on price with conventionally grown plants.
The cattle ranches of Texas have long provided protein for the US populace. Qualitas wants to continue that tradition – but it’s raising algae instead.
The Swedish company has retained investment banks Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Credit Suisse to manage the offering, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The Indian company will use the Series C funding to expand its global presence and provide its AI-driven agronomy and financing solutions to more customers.
The Dutch startup supports the adoption of regenerative agroforestry projects across the world. It’s hoping to bring a systems-based approach to the movement.
New research from biotech startup BYAS suggests that a microalgae extract could improve the commercial viability of indoor & vertical farms.
Here are the 20 stories published by the AFN team in 2020 that racked up the most reads; plus stats that highlight our increasingly global audience.
Here are the 20 agrifoodtech startups that secured the most funding this year worldwide, based on preliminary data provided by AgFunder.
As Fulcrum Global Capital activated its investment theses about ag’s future, the very foundations of the ag industry began shifting in response to Covid-19.
AFN regularly runs analysis, opinion, and expert commentary from guest authors. Here are the 20 most-read guest pieces we published this year.
If you’ve been so head-down focused on just getting to the end of 2020 that you forgot all about holiday gift planning, AFN has you covered with last-minute ideas that you can send and they can eat.
A year like no other… But while Covid-19 has been catastrophic for the agrifood sector in many regards, it has also put agrifoodtech into the limelight like never before.
Israel’s Soos uses sound waves to transform male chicken embryos – which are typically culled once hatched – into commercially viable egg-laying females.
Christmas sees many of us overdo the food and drink, so it’s not always the healthiest time of year. Here are a few nutritionist’s tips for keeping in corpore sano.
The city-state’s trade minister predicts “many other companies” will follow Perfect Day and others setting up R&D and manufacturing facilities there.
The Covid-19 pandemic thrust food supply chain tech into the spotlight in a way that none of us could have anticipated.
The Singapore sovereign fund’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Israeli company is just the latest sign of its increasingly hard focus on agrifoodtech.
The duo will commercialize the US startup’s “green chemistry” product that helps plants use fertilizer more efficiently through microbes.