It’s Time to Plant the Seeds of Growth in Sustainable Agriculture
The Boston Consulting Group offers advice to large agribusineses in meeting consumer demand for sustainably grown food and offers some thoughts around defining sustainability.
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Growing Peace in Niger Through the Moringa Tree
Editor's Note: Lisa Curtis is CEO of Kuli Kuli Foods, the leading Moringa brand in the US. Here she writes about her background in the Peace Corps, how it led to the creation of Kuli Kuli, and how the company is now hoping its effort will promote peace in Niger.
Food & Ag Was Noticeably Absent from CES, But the Leaders Know It’s Coming
"Last week I attended my first Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with 185,000 other tech seekers. My head continues to spin from the flying taxis and autonomous bread makers," writes Vonnie Estes.
Don’t Trust Corporate Venture Capitalists! (Or What You Need to Know First)
You will find a lot of views online on why not to take corporate venture money in your startup. However, the reality today is that corporate venture capital (CVC) is becoming an important part of the startup ecosystem, writes Amit Sridharan.
3 Ways Ag Startups Can Strengthen the Enabling Environment for their Businesses in Developing Markets
Here are three ways private sector agricultural businesses can engage to strengthen policies, regulations, and laws with benefits to both their business and the agricultural sector more broadly.
AgTech Adoption: Engage the Right Talent with the Right Technology on the Right Problems
There’s a digital revolution happening across food & agriculture and it's driven by human talent, writes Janette Barnard.
What’s Next for Agtech?
In the second in a two-part series, Barclay Rogers illustrates the core themes in farm tech adoption to-date and predicts the next phase in farm tech development.
Bioceres CEO: Business Model Innovation is Key for Conservative Ag Industry
"Trying to be the "new Monsanto" or the "Amazon of Ag" does not work; copying what others have already done is not generally a recipe for disruption," argues Federico Trucco, CEO of Argentine agtech business Bioceres.
How Beer Revolutionized Math — and Just Might Save Humanity
The pioneering work of Irish brewers a century ago made today’s big data and artificial intelligence gold rush possible, write Joe Byrum.
Agtech Recruitment: Do You Need Ag Experience to Work in Agtech?
Requiring new hires to have agriculture experience can be severely limiting, and potentially detrimental to the growth of the company, argues Maximillian Cunha.
Can Imagery Cure India’s Food System Woes?
Hemendra Mathur discusses how image processing could be truly disruptive in Indian agriculture for solving the inherent problems of productivity, grading and sorting, yield estimation, pest detection, traceability, and detecting food adulteration.
Open List of Women Leaders in Ag Challenges Industry Event Organizers to Promote Equal Representation
A publicly available and editable list of women leaders in agriculture, started by Agrilyst CEO Allison Kopf, challenges event and conference organizers to increase gender representation in public discussions of the industry.
Why Syngenta Acquired FarmShots: “It’s Definitely a Race”
We caught up with Dan Burdett, global head of digital agriculture at Syngenta, to find out why the company decided to acquire FarmShots rather than partnering with the four-year-old startup and what other technologies Syngenta is eyeing in 2018.
International Women’s Day: Wisdom from Women in Agtech
Female CEOs receive 2.7% of all venture funding and women of color receive just 0.2%. The women quoted below are helping to move those statistics and today, on International Women's Day, we are sharing some of their advice and experience
Q&A: DowDuPont CTO Neal Gutterson Discusses Public Perception of Gene Editing and Digital Strategy After Granular Acquisition
We caught up with Neal Gutterson ahead of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, where he is a keynote speaker, to discuss the strategy behind Dow DuPont's first GE product and the company's digital strategy going forward.
Alibaba’s Jack Ma Interviewed by ImpactVision CEO at Davos
Ramanan interviewed the e-commerce giant in her capacity as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper — a network of teams of young people committed to solving global problems.
Women In Agtech: How Miyoko’s Kitchen CEO Deals With Male ‘Guru’ Figures in Plant-Based Food
Miyoko Schinner is founder and CEO of Miyoko's Kitchen, a plant-based food startup specializing in nut and coconut-based cheese and butter alternatives.
Grower or Tech Company? Indoor Farmers Must Make Up Their Minds
In a gradually maturing industry, companies need to focus on the primary scope of their business if they want to be successful. For indoor farmers, this may mean a choice between selling technology and selling produce.
Women in Agtech: Wendy Mosher of New West Genetics on Women in Cannabis
We caught up with Mosher to find out what it's like for a woman in the cannabis industry and how this female CEO handles raising funding for a family business.
Women in Agtech: Vinsight CEO Megan Nunes on Selling Predictive Tech While Female
We caught up with Nunes to find out what a decade in aerospace taught her about male-dominated spaces, and how she sells tech that can sometimes sound like magic.