Female agrifoodtech entrepreneurs experience persistent negative gender bias, according to a new report published by KK&P and EIT Food.
We’re on Clubhouse and a new regular show we’re particularly excited about is the Future Food News Review, featuring leading journalists in foodtech and agtech discussing their top headlines of the week. Find out about last week here!
PepsiCo and the IDB are launching the Next Generation Agriculture Fund to promote the inclusion of women in agriculture across Latin America.
Cargill is consolidating is corporate venture investing and partnership activity under a centralized unit, Cargill’s new head of corporate ventures Erin VanLanduit tells AFN.
The Singapore-based startup will use the project development grant money to commercialize OnlyEg, its legume-based egg substitute which comprises a distinct white and yolk.
The US Congress has issued a report on dangerous levels of heavy metals in baby food. But these substances can’t simply be regulated away, a molecular biologist writes.
We launched our new Clubhouse partnership with Food+Tech Connect in the best way possible: celebrating women innovators in food on International Women’s Day.
Two Artemis employees wanted to celebrate some of the incredible women whom they work with and who choose to challenge the agricultural industry, because “a challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.”
The New Brunswick-based startup is commercializing its mastitis detection technology, starting with beta trials on dairies in Canada.
While the number of women founders, leaders, and innovators in the agrifoodtech sector continues to grow, women voices in the industry remain few and far between. Here’s a directory to help you find them.
ADM Ventures’ Victoria de la Huerga talks with AFN working for a company that was acquired by ADM–then helping the corporation build its venture investing strategy.
Project Well provides at-risk healthcare plan members with nutritonal counseling and tailored meal plans to target chronic disease.
Anuvia is hoping to clean up conventional fertilizer with its bio-basd input that improves yields while also reducing GHG emissions and sequestering carbon.
The pair’s packaging is a micro-perforated compostable film that reduces food waste by extending shelf life while cutting plastic pollution.
The two companies have combined their crop science and soil health chops with an eye on the nascent carbon credits market.
The ag industry is actively developing farm management systems (FMS), but the abundance of choices may be confusing. New research from AgroHub, AgFunder, and Top Lead seeks to make things simpler.
A former butcher with a background in software is helping big food companies change the way they’re thinking about achieving regenerative food at scale.
“There is far too little deal flow with women,” said one panelist. “I’m that person who has not made investment deals with women. Not because I did not want to, but I have only ever met four women who pitched for investment out of many men,” said a senior, female banking official.
“I am woman, hear me roar,” belts Helen Reddy. That bravado reverberates in Chipsafer’s Victoria Alonsoperez & Agrosmart’s Mariana Vasconcelos’ daily lives.
Just 8% of venture capital dollars invested in agri-foodtech in 2018 went to founding teams with at least one female, according to a new report by AgFunder, KK&P and The New Food Economy with support from S2G Ventures.
