Brief: USDA appoints first-ever federal committee for urban agriculture
February 3, 2022
The Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture includes several entrepreneurs and experts from the world of agrifoodtech.
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Brief: Infarm plots major Canada expansion with strengthened Sobeys partnership
July 27, 2021
CEO Erez Galonska said the deal “represents one of the largest rollouts of any vertical farming company in North America to date.”
Brief: US federal court rules that hydroponic produce can be certified organic
March 25, 2021
The Center for Food Safety had petitioned the US Department of Agriculture to cease its certification of hydroponic operations as eligible for the government’s ‘organic’ program.
Brief: Infarm tops up Series C to $270m; moves into chilis, mushrooms & tomatoes
March 11, 2021
Infarm CEO Erez Galonska declined to comment on rumors that the startup has retained perennial IPO underwriter Goldman Sachs to help it raise more funds.
Ex-Impossible Foods VP Dana Worth on his new role at Plenty & the future of indoor farming
February 1, 2021
After six years at Impossible Foods, Dana Worth is joining CEA startup Plenty as senior vice president – just as indoor farming begins to really heat up.
Agrifoodtech firms are flocking to Singapore, with Perfect Day the latest to land
December 20, 2020
The city-state’s trade minister predicts “many other companies” will follow Perfect Day and others setting up R&D and manufacturing facilities there.
Infarm raises $170m in first close of Series C
September 17, 2020
Infarm says that by 2025 its operations will reach more than 5 million square feet to become the largest distributed vertical farming network in the world.
Noroo wants to power Asia’s smallholders and vertical farmers with its ‘seed to table’ model
August 4, 2020
The Korean chemical giant’s Singapore agribiz hub will “pioneer solutions for the world food supply chain through innovation, not just plain food trading,” its CEO tells AFN.
Vertical farming in LatAm: AgroUrbana closes $1m seed funding
July 2, 2020
There’s space for vertical farming among Chile’s urban populations, where year-round fresh produce is not as abundant as you might think.
Singapore food and housing agencies to rent out public rooftops for urban farms
May 21, 2020
Urban farming gets a boost as the Singapore Food Agency and Housing & Development Board tender out nine multi-storey car park rooftops to growers.
3 Obstacles Facing the Urban Agriculture Industry in New York
April 16, 2019
Results of a new study in New York suggest that urban agriculture may not be able to provide the bevy of benefits that have excited consumers and enticed investors.
Ag Industry Brief: New Fund for Coops in Developing Countries, Target Buys Shipt, Soylent CEO is Out, more
December 15, 2017
A new fund will address the credit gap in the agriculture industry by raising capital from institutional investors and lending to agricultural aggregators like cooperatives, traders, and processors in developing countries and more in our weekly brief.
10 American Cities Lead Urban Agriculture
May 30, 2014
This post originally appeared on SeedStock. Small growers and urban farms are springing up across the nation, but many cities lack the infrastructure, zoning laws
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