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.
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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.
Data snapshot: VCs bet on upcycling, insects and inventory management software to cut food waste in 2022
April 5, 2023
Investors poured money almost equally into the Recycling and Prevention categories of food waste mitigation in 2022 in North America.
Can blockchain alone guarantee traceability in our food system?
April 4, 2023
Exploiting blockchain’s full potential around traceability requires us to think of the technology as a tile to be integrated with other available solutions.
Beyond price parity, CEA must focus more on consumer demand to truly scale
March 29, 2023
As pricing parity gets closer to conventionally grown produce, focus on demand attributes will be increasingly important to the whole industry.
Data snapshot: eGrocery investment rollercoaster leads to 73% funding decline in 2022, still biggest category
March 23, 2023
eGrocery is still the biggest subsegment in agrifoodtech investing, attracting a cool $5.1 billion in funding in 2022. But that pales in comparison to the jaw-dropping $19 billion raised by food ecommerce startups in 2021, according to AgFunder’s new global investment report.
African agritech needs to focus more on boosting farmer productivity, says E4Impact
March 15, 2023
There’s still scope for innovation in boosting farmer producticity and efficiency as AFDB predicts 60% increased food insecurity.
Bayer, Microsoft formalize and launch cloud-based data manager, tools for agriculture
March 14, 2023
Bayer and Microsoft will offer off-the-shelf digital tools to aggregate ag data and better track everything from plant growth to supply chain visibility.
Why Patagonia Provisions bought Moonshot: ‘It’s the best impact story of a food business I’ve ever come across’
March 9, 2023
Patagonia Provisions “fell in love” with Moonshot’s business, which is built around the concept of shorter supply chains and more traceable ingredients.
New report: Global hunger set to spiral as countries forced to choose between repaying debt and feeding population
March 7, 2023
Global public debt, the highest seen in 60 years, is causing a spike in food insecurity, according to a new iPES Food report that exposes a debt and hunger loop forcing countries to choose between feeding people and repaying debt.
Hectare nets $20m Series A to advance sustainable ag supply chains
March 2, 2023
UK’s Hectare nets $20m Series A to strengthen its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)offering, boost product development and expand into new international markets.
Brief: Divert bags $100m, strikes $1bn infrastructure deal with Enbridge to turn food waste into biogas
March 1, 2023
The deal will help Divert build more anaerobic digestion facilities across North America to turn food waste from grocery stores into renewable gas.
As demand for protein grows Sustainable Planet bets on water lentils as a viable alternative to soya
March 1, 2023
Sustainable Planet works with smallholder farmers in some of the world’s most arid places to produce water lentils that provide both food and income.
PepsiCo faces $4.4bn of climate risk per year, ‘unclear’ it will meet 2040 climate goals, says think tank
March 1, 2023
Unless it mitigates emissions, PepsiCo will miss its Science-Based targets for 2040 by 58%, according to think tank Planet Tracker.
Mondelēz International eyes sustainable snacking as 60% of consumers say they’d pay carbon tax
February 28, 2023
63% of consumers also agree that snacks with a higher environmental impact should cost more, according to Mondelēz International Malaysia & Singapore.
International Fresh Produce Association launches 2023 Fresh Field Catalyst Accelerator program
February 27, 2023
The Fresh Field Catalyst program seeks solutions for climate challenges as they relate to the produce and floral industries.
Meet the founder: Henry Duckworth on Agridex streamlining ag value chains with blockchain technology
February 24, 2023
Agridex says it’s bringing transparency, connectivity and accessibility to ag value chains and its COO, Henry Duckworth believes blockchain is the solution.
RiceAfrika founder Ibrahim Maigari poses agri mechanization as a productivity and gender empowerment tool in Africa
January 28, 2023
‘Building an Africa that feeds itself’ is what RiceAfrika says it’s out to accomplish. Ibrahim Maigari its founder and CEO believes that if we’re serious
AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace
January 27, 2023
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
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