EY’s Rob Dongoski dives into the macro factors impacting controlled environment agriculture — and what startups should do.
The company says it can grow leafy greens and herbs indoors via its soil-based vertical farming system for 30% less than it costs to grow outdoors.
By partnering with Lavoro, David Friedberg’s company hopes to drive more agtech adoption by leveraging the ag retailer’s influence on farmers.
The indoor farming company aims to make its greenhouse-grown leafy greens and herbs available to 90% of US consumers in the near future.
Jerky might seem like a strange choice, but it aligns with Beyond Meat’s mission to increase its retail sales in 2022.
The Nairobi-based startup – formerly known as Sokowatch – enables informal grocery retailers to restock and finance their stores via its mobile app.
More than half of survey respondents said grocery stores must improve their sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing.
“We are excited to accelerate Seiyu’s digital transformation […] to become Japan’s leading omnichannel retailer,” said new CEO Tsuneo Okubo.
The last visible vestiges of Tesco’s Asian retail operations are set to disappear as stores carrying the UK company’s name undergo a rebrand.
The UK app lets users buy a ‘mystery bag’ of food items that would otherwise end up in landfill.
Economic and retail data may help to explain why hydroponic lettuce has some way to go before it can compete on price with conventionally grown plants.
Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.
The design process is about not patronising farmers with solutions they do not need, but realizing farmers as concerned about boosting their bottom line in a tight margins business. “Every farmer is a CEO, Agrando’s founder tells AFN.
Daniel Vradenburg is the former president of Wilbur-Ellis and the board chair of Cavallo Ventures and now he’s joining soil science startup Trace Genomics.
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Kuli Kuli is driving the moringa products market in the US with over 50% of a segment that’s now in 3% of US households.
We can spend a lot of money on feed rations, but if the animal’s gut integrity is wrong because of bacteria in the water line, that nutrition is wasted and is also a welfare issue, says Barney Kay, head of agriculture at Tesco.
We caught up with Curtis Garner from Bowles Farming, who has been assessing the way the business purchases its inputs in the hope of saving costs, to find what he thinks about all the agribusiness marketplace startups cropping up.
Food + Future coLab is now testing two new technologies aimed at finding out what information consumers want about their food while they shop.
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