Brightseed discovers compounds in waste hemp hulls that could help fight fatty liver disease
March 9, 2022
Hemp hulls are normally discarded. But Brightseed says they contain compounds that could help treat metabolic diseases.
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Brief: Canada approves world’s first plant-based Covid-19 vaccine
February 25, 2022
The vaccine developed by Canadian company Medicago highlights the role plant-based proteins could play in speeding up response times to global health crises.
Asian firms top list of protein producers at risk of incubating next pandemic
February 16, 2022
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s largest meat, fish, and dairy suppliers present a “high risk” of spreading zoonotic disease from livestock to humans.
Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food
January 18, 2022
It uses “precision therapies, software, and nutrition to help treat cancer, for the millions of patients who desperately need better outcomes,” according to CEO Anand Parikh.
Nuritas raises $45m to scale its plant-based peptides discovery platform
November 11, 2021
The Series B funds will be used to scale up the Irish company’s platform, which aims to unlock additional health benefits for food and beverage products.
Future Food 🎙️: Soylent CEO on shift towards middle America & the future of plant-based
October 28, 2021
Soylent meal replacement drinks, reportedly beloved of some entrepreneurs and VCs, have proven somewhat controversial in the podcast’s ‘hot or not’ rounds.
The future of food: More science, more sustainability, more transparency
October 28, 2021
The future of food is exciting and unknown; but one way or another, it’s going to require more consumer education, writes Soylent’s Demir Vangelov.
The 30-year wait for golden rice shows why ag research needs ongoing funding
August 18, 2021
In a world first, the GM crop – developed in the early 1990s to provide higher levels of vitamin A – was recently approved for commercial planting in the Philippines.
Danone partners with nutrient discovery startup Brightseed amid ‘plant-based 2.0’ push
August 4, 2021
The pair are expanding on their earlier collaboration, which “uncovered 10 times more bioactives than previously known” in the soybean plant.
We already have the blueprint to prevent the next pandemic – and it’s on our farms
July 6, 2021
On World Zoonoses Day, a call for farms in emerging markets to get access to the same tech and knowhow as their counterparts elsewhere.
How to indulge healthily this festive season
December 23, 2020
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.
Cheap food fuelled the Covid death toll. Now it’s time to tackle the obesity epidemic
July 9, 2020
Of all the reports on the tragic and rising death toll resulting from Covid-19, there’s one underlying health condition that has been largely overlooked: obesity.
Future Food: From software to regen ag, Soilworks says key to better health is in the ground
July 6, 2020
Soilworks’ co-founders formed the regenerative ag-focused investment group after working together at B2B SaaS investor Scaleworks.
A quick look at the impact of Covid-19 on fresh produce and ag commodity prices
April 6, 2020
Covid-19 is impacting much more than restaurants and grocery stores; farmworkers, logistics suppliers and more are struggling to keep up and it’s impacting the supply of fresh produce and staples. Here’s a look at the impact on pricing for a few food and ag products.
Health foods portal CureFit raises $110m from Temasek, Unilever
March 30, 2020
Users can order health-conscious meals, groceries, and supplements through the Indian startup’s wellness marketplace.
Indonesian microbiome profiling startup Nusantics scores seed funding
March 23, 2020
Nusantics is aiming for a “bio-based future [of] value-added lifestyle products such as skincare, personal care, food, and beverage”.
It’s time for investors to embrace nutritious foods
December 18, 2019
Most ag investment flows to high-income countries, and currently very little reaches the food systems of low-income regions like Africa, with virtually none going to support highly nutritious foods, according to GAIN.
Future Food: Who’s responsible for obesity? And when Futurist Jack Bobo is pro-tradition
November 7, 2019
“I’m very optimistic and excited about what the world will look like in 2050 but I think it is helpful though to think about where we’ve come from in order to think about where we’re going.”
UPDATE: Food allergy detection startup allerguard raises $1.5m post-seed round
October 9, 2019
Are you an allergy sufferer and in need of peace of mind? Israeli startup allerguard could help out. It just got $1.5m in backing for its detection tech.
Future Food: Klaus Kunz on how Bayer is cleaning up its act
September 24, 2019
In this episode of Future Food, AFN editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor speaks to Klaus Kunz, head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at German agro-pharma giant Bayer.
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