Tag: food security

Q&A: Scaling CEA’s future farms with IUNU’s Allison Kopf

March 29, 2022

The chief marketing officer discusses the risks of CEA, the crops we’ll grow indoors in the future, and how indoor agtech will change.

Bezos Earth Fund pledges $17m to Colombia’s Future Seeds plant gene bank

March 17, 2022

CGIAR’s Alliance of Biodiversity International aims to “climate-proof” tropical food systems through its brand-new plant genebank.

Q&A: Amplified Ag’s female leaders discuss the future of CEA & container farming

March 11, 2022

Jackie Jones and Rachel Downing are two of the major forces behind CEA company Amplified Ag and its mission to evolve container farming.

S2G leads $12m Series A for food rescue app Flashfood

February 28, 2022

Funding will support further expansion of Flashfood’s food rescue and redistribution program at grocery retailers across the US.

10 startups join Endeavor & FMO’s cohort to accelerate agrifoodtech in Africa

February 23, 2022

The year-long program is designed to prime Africa’s agrifoodtech VC pipeline by supporting early-stage startups with investment and business readiness.

Here’s how the CEOs of Bayer, Cargill & 2 agtech startups would spend Elon Musk’s $6bn for world hunger

February 15, 2022

Local language services for farmers, enhanced capital access, and regenerative ag are just some of the options.

New Danforth Center unit aims to launch more agtech companies from the campus

February 14, 2022

The Center launched the Danforth Technology Company to commercialize its research and technology and launch new agtech startups from its own campus.

Ending malnutrition by 2030 is possible with an Olympian effort

December 10, 2021

This year’s Nutrition for Growth Summit, held in Olympic host city Tokyo, provided a platform from which to accelerate global progress on malnutrition.

Two-thirds of Gen Z believe current food systems are ‘destroying the planet’: survey

December 1, 2021

EIT Food, which conducted the survey, is calling for 25% of the EU’s agricultural land to be managed under regenerative practices by 2030.

First-ever Food Systems Summit sees billions in pledges & plenty of disagreements

October 1, 2021

The US alone pledged $10 billion to transform global food production and consumption over the next five years. But is it enough?

AgTech NEXT launches 3-part conference series to tackle climate change

July 22, 2021

AgTech NEXT is offering free registration for a new conference series that will focus on specific issues at the intersection of agriculture and climate change.

Quantum computing’s answer to the global food security problem

June 15, 2021

Quantum hardware’s depth of analysis would likely advance our understanding of the genetic code of plants – and humans – far beyond what we know today.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: AI’s food security impact

April 22, 2021

AI must be applied not just to growing more of this crop or that crop, but to optimizing agriculture’s entire value chain, writes Joseph Byrum.

Brief: UAE’s Madar Farms partners with UK vertical farming startup IGS

April 22, 2021

Madar Farms is one of several indoor ag operations that the UAE – which imports 80% of its food – has invested in to boost domestic production.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Boosting agriculture’s climate resilience

March 30, 2021

AI that learns through ’embodied intelligence’ could boost agricultural resilience with its greater capacity to adapt to rapidly evolving climatic events.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Thinking beyond human capabilities

March 24, 2021

Many see AI’s ultimate goal as replication of the inner workings of the human brain. But is there another way to look at what AI can do for us?

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Complexity, AI & the future of food: AI’s potential for addressing global food security

March 16, 2021

AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: the problem of food security, writes Joseph Byrum.

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Singapore launches $45m agritech fund to boost urban food production

February 18, 2021

The Singapore government unveiled the fund, aimed at encouraging local agtech adoption, as part of its 2021 national budget and 10-year sustainability plan.