Tag: latin america

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Maple Hill Creamery lands $20m, Michelle Obama’s new food brand, Agrii & Drone Ag team up

May 4, 2023

Plus, Meati expands across the US & agronomy service Agrii invests in Drone Ag.

Exclusive: The Yield Lab Latam raises $20m from Grupo Bimbo, IDB Lab, others for third fund

May 4, 2023

The Yield Lab Latam is targeting a $50m final close by the end of the year.

Brazil’s Arado (née Clicampo) secures $12m to streamline the country’s agribusiness supply chain

April 25, 2023

Arado’s digital agribusiness marketplace connecting farmers directly with retailers and restaurants grew 30x in 2022.

Apply to GLOCAL’s 2023 program to help advance Latin American agrifoodtech

April 20, 2023

Latin American agrifoodtech startups hoping to scale their solutions can now apply to the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2023.

Food & ag corporates prefer to engage with academia, research over startups, according to open innovation report

April 17, 2023

Only half of agrifood corps have used startup scouting in open innovation efforts, preferring to collaborate with research, according to new report.

LatAm foodtech is flourishing with startups tackling food waste in the supply chain

April 13, 2023

Around Latin America and the Caribbean, startups are using technology to prevent, avoid or upcycle food waste up and down the supply chain.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: ClimateAI raises $22m, Legit Group cooks up $13m, Farm.One reopens

April 13, 2023

Meanwhile, vertical farm Kalera gets delisting notice from Nasdaq and Australian eGrocer Milkrun shuts down after just 18 months of operation.

Danforth Center researchers turn to epigenome editing to protect cash crop cassava from blight

March 28, 2023

Researchers recently demonstrated that epigenome editing can reduce blight symptoms in cassava plants without impacting plant growth or yield.

‘It’s a way to augment our organic growth’: Inside CropX M&A strategy that’s eyeing Latin America next

February 13, 2023

Fresh from the recent acquisition of precision irrigation startup Tule, CropX explains how it balances M&A with internal development for agtech solutions.

Letter from 2023: a vintage year to invest in foodtech and agtech

January 19, 2023

Stalling progress and slumping valuations might feel disappointing to many. Heck, these are challenging times. But this could be the best year yet to invest in agrifoodtech.

Top 10 alternative protein startups brought in $1.3bn in 2022 vs $2.3bn in 2021

January 18, 2023

It’s been a tough few months for the alternative protein startup category, particularly companies developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives

I’m getting déjà vu: foodtech and the dot com crash

January 16, 2023

Over the last year, we have seen a fierce and accelerating backlash against food tech. But it’s time to move on, writes Johan Jörgensen.

Why a global consulting firm acquired an open innovation hub for agtech in Brazil

January 13, 2023

PwC acquired AgTech Garage, an open innovation hub for agtech in Brazil last month. We ask AgTech Garage CEO Jose Tome to tell us more.

SLC’s strategic investment in Pink Farms is a boost for all of Latin American vertical farming

December 20, 2022

Pink Farms aims to provide some or possibly all of its vertical farming technology to the grain and fiber production in the next 10 years.

By the numbers: the state of the world’s soil in 2022

December 8, 2022

From widespread soil degradation in Africa to Iowa’s quickly disappearing “black gold,” the numbers show how urgent the world’s soil situation is.

The next generation of ghost kitchens: 10 new startup concepts around the world

October 13, 2022

From old timers with mega deals to up-and-comers just entering the space, here are the ghost kitchen startups leading the pack of a growing if somewhat controversial segment of the food industry.

How Deep Science Ventures aims to build resiliency in tropical agriculture, starting with Costa Rica

October 12, 2022

A new tropical agriculture program focuses on technologies and processes that restore and regenerate soils and species rather than solely extract from them.