Mareese Keane, the program director of agtech accelerator THRIVE presented the Animal AgTech Landscape Map at the inaugural Swine Innovation Summit last week.
The WorldFish and IFPRI join forces to carry out research into a future of seafood, without the sea, and how it could improve the world.
A new study exploring consumer attitudes towards restaurant technology revealed that some see it as a quick marketing gig while others expect restaurants to adopt new digital tools.
As a tech journalist aware of the potential for rapid change and transformation in this and any other industry, it seems crazy to me to be using nearly 10-year old data as a guide for decision making today and in the future.
Food multinationals aren’t offering enough in terms of protein alternatives, says investor network FAIRR – but alt-protein faces other challenges too.
Regenerative agriculture is having a moment. For long-time regen ag practitioners and proponents, this is probably jarring. But having written about regenerative agriculture for five years now, I’ve never seen such engagement or our stories about this ultra-sustainable method of farming perform so well.
A new report predicts that technology will be a big player in the rapidly-transforming supermarket segment, including everything from streamlining back-end logistics to rendering checkout lines obsolete.
It has been a wild ride watching the agtech landscape explode these past five years, writes Seana Day – who’s now tracking over 1,600 startups globally in her latest market map.
The majority of agrifood tech investors are generalist tech investors but there is also a growing number of dedicated funds focused on foodtech and agtech. Here’s a list of the top 10 in 2018.
Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well
Startups in the category we call Midstream Technologies raised $1.35 billion in 2018, climbing from the third-best funded category to the second-best funded sector behind Ag Biotechnology.
Considering Israel’s population of less than nine million, and its geographic size that is not much bigger than New Jersey, the report shows this small Mediterranean nation to be punching well above its weight in agrifood tech.
Networking groups may be a key way to help women landowners and farmers overcome persistent gender barriers particularly when it comes to adopting conservation practices, according to the new research ahead of International Women’s Day.
The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine’s Day is one of the industry’s biggest nights of the year.
Growing in retrofit shipping containers has received significant buzz over the past five to 10 years as produce is grown hyper-locally on a small footprint. But how viable is this form of growing in the long term?
The report discusses three categories of innovation that are primed to improve our food system’s sustainability and the roadblocks that are impeding each sector’s progress.
European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels.
The first wave of European food tech companies has mostly focused on building technology and logistics platforms to deliver food to consumers. And while the
With highly skilled talent in many disciplines from animal and plant sciences to land management, the UK has a proven ability to develop and market new technologies.
The fledgling startup industry looks different to other global markets with the vast majority of innovation and investment ($1.7 billion) taking place downstream; but China’s agrifood startup scene has something the US market does not.
