The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers.
AgriFood Tech Venture News
African FinTech Company Cellulant Raises $47.5 Million – Forbes
Iowa AgriTech Accelerator Announces Startups for 2018 Cohort – PR
Pivot Bio Reports Expansion of Leadership Team – PR
Inocucor Changes Name to Concentric – PR
Former Cargill Investment Manager Brett W. Duffy Joins Decisive Farming as Chief Financial Officer – PR
Dream Water Acquired by Canadian Cannabis Co. Harvest One – PR
Tom Brady’s Vegan Meal-Kit Maker Gets Del Monte Capital Infusion – Bloomberg
Foodshed.io Uses Blockchain to Make Sourcing Local Sustainable Goods Easy, Championing Local Farmers – Foodshed
AgriFood Industry News
Tesco and Modelez commit to human rights action, Kraft Heinz lags – new report from $5 trillion investor coalition – Corporate Human Rights Benchmark
Merged Bayer-Monsanto will corner the market on farm data and software – Des Moines Register
Controlled Environment Agriculture Experiencing Rapid Growth – PR
Beloved Tate’s cookies has been scooped up by Oreo’s parent company – Fast Company
The Soil Health Institute announces methods for evaluating soil health indicators at a continental scale – Soil Health Institute
Study: young European farmers are few, highly qualified and invest a lot of money – Agroop
Rapid Growth Of Blockchain Brings Opportunity, Change to Agriculture – PR
Don’t miss FOOD IT: The Full Stack! – The Mixing Bowl
AgriFood & Tech Commentary
These Shipping Containers Have Farms Inside – Bloomberg
No Time to Waste: A New Model for Agricultural Forecasting – Gro Intelligence
People, Power Costs Keep Indoor Farming Down To Earth – AP
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement – Gwern
Has wine gone bad? – The Guardian
Corporate VC arms increase a corporation’s shareprice – Medium
Rise Of The Rise Highlights AgTech Startups – Farm Journal AgTech
Subcutaneous Fitbits? These cows are modeling the tracking technology of the future – MIT Tech Review
AgriFood Policy News
Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Quietly Finding Glyphosate in Food – Modern Farmer
Organic Farmers Association Applauds USDA for Termination of Organic Checkoff – PR
Federal budget 2017: What it means for farmers across Australia – ABC
Obamacare Calorie Count Rules Ushered In – Scientific American
China pledges support for Mozambique’s agriculture – APA News
Immigration battle now looms large ahead of major farm bill vote – CNN
Farm Bill Controversy Centers On Food Stamps – NPR
What Could the Next Farm Bill Mean for the Organic Program? – Civil Eats
Floor debate on House farm bill begins – High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal
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