Achieving food security and boosting smallholder farm incomes go hand in hand; Robert Madziva aims to do both with his digital agribusiness platform.
DeHaat says the Series E round will help the company reach break-even profitability within the next 12 months.
The category’s strong fundraising performance underscores its potential to positively impact Asia-Pacific, especially when it comes to smallholder farmers.
With fresh Series B funding, Agriconomie aims to become the European leader in the organics and regenerative inputs market.
The Seedz platform aims to transition more farmers in Brazil online while also giving major suppliers more actionable data.
Smaller-sized farmers in Mexico have no access to credit. Verqor wants to change that by digitizing more of the country’s ag operations.
Ahead of its forthcoming Series B fundraise, the US-based company has landed $5.3 million in new capital for its phosphorus fertilizer additive.
The French startup is aiming to have its first biofungicide product on the market within the next three years.
Panelists on a recent webinar about Ukraine and the global agrifood industry didn’t mince their words when discussing the current dire climate situation.
Top Ag Biotech investment deals in 2021 covered gene editing, farm inputs, animal health solutions, and biofertilizers, among others.
The crisis in Ukraine has damaged an already weakened post-Covid global food system. It has also highlighted the vulnerabilities of that system’s interconnectedness, write FAIRR’s Helena Wright and Alexander Burr.
Benson Hill aims to scale its Ultra-High Protein soy by incorporating it into Kellogg’s MorningStar Farms alt-meat range.
Nigeria’s ThriveAgric and Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raised close to $100 million between them this week in a watershed moment for African agrifoodtech.
Sound Ag claims the pilot could cover 3 million farm acres, reducing up to 350,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, by 2027.
The Jakarta-based startup links sellers of fertilizers, seeds, and other inputs with local ag stores that serve smallholder farmers across Indonesia.
Agrolend will use the funds to increase its credit portfolio, enabling more options for farmers using its fintech platform.
The biological inputs market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 11.9% over the next five years, compared to chemicals’ 3.7%, according to recent market research.
Regenerative agriculture can perhaps be best explained in terms of how it contrasts with other farming paradigms, writes HowGood’s Ethan Soloviev.
The Raleigh, North Carolina-based startup captures and screens microbes found in the natural world to identify apt candidates for pest control and crop protection.
The Netherlands startup is using CRISPR to perform non-transgenic genome edits on plant varieties – in addition to developing nanotech-enabled delivery of crop inputs.
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