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A Q&A with Robert Saik: It’s Time to Get Big or Go Home for Agriculture Robotics
Although there are a number of farm robotics startups, they lack the scale necessary to make a meaningful impact, according to Robert Saik, CEO of DOT Farm Solutions retail strategies.
Food Tech Innovators Need to Focus More on Global Nutrition
Despite their ingenuity and a commendable focus on sustainability and food loss, entrepreneurs are missing a huge opportunity by not prioritizing nutrition, writes Amy Beaudreault.
‘We are relentlessly looking for female entrepreneurs, but there aren’t enough’
AgFunder and its collaborators KK&P and The New Food Economy are excited to announce that S2G Ventures has become a sponsor of Money Where Our Mouths Are (MWOMA), an investigation into the funding gaps for female entrepreneurs in the agrifood industry.
Alternative Protein Startups: Let’s Get the Facts Straight about Livestock’s Carbon Footprint
The issue of livestock farming’s impact on the environment is not as clear cut as many would have you believe. In fact, many much of the data dairy and meat alternative businesses are using to market their animal-free wares are inaccurate and misleading.
Reclaiming the Promise of Food for Health
The real power to endow people with fundamentally longer, healthier lives resides in the hands of the food industry, writes Jim Flatt.
How to Overcome the Many Challenges Associated with Agricultural Data
Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more.
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.
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.