| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.12.2024 | Q&A: CEO Sam Sneddon on how WollemAI plans to become the climate tech vendor of choice in Australia and Southeast Asia | Agricultural systems are inextricably linked to carbon and nitrogen cycles, but emissions calculations and the science and data for effectively monitoring land and agriculture are still evolving. WollemAI, a climate-tech startup from Austra... |
| 26.11.2024 | Asia-Pacific Agrifood Tech: A Resilient Recovery Amidst Global Challenges | The Asia-Pacific (APAC) agrifood tech sector is on the rebound. After two years of turmoil, funding has surged by 38% in 2024, reaching $4.2 billion. This recovery is not just a flicker; it’s a beacon of hope in a landscape once shrouded in... |
| 25.11.2024 | APAC Agrifood Tech Funding Up by 38%, With India Reclaiming the Top Spot | 4 Mins Read Funding for alternative proteins has grown by 85% this year in Asia-Pacific, mirroring a larger sector-wide recovery, a new AgFunder report shows.
Asia-Pacific’s agrifood tech sector is showing “remarkable” signs of recovery aft... |
| 21.11.2024 | NEW REPORT: Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech funding recovers with 38% YoY increase to $4.2bn so far in 2024 | The Asia-Pacific (APAC) agrifoodtech ecosystem has recorded an impressive recovery so far in 2024 with startups in the region raising some $4.2 billion, a 38% year-over-year increase, in the face of global market headwinds that have plagued... |
| 07.10.2024 | The venture capital model is still suitable for agtech. Sort of | With agrifoodtech investment still down and exits in the sector elusive, more folks are now asking whether the venture capital model is still applicable to agtech.
The jury, it seems, is still out on the matter. While VC investment to agtec... |
| 26.09.2024 | Australians look to World Agri-Tech to fill horticulture, grains investment pipeline | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia. The author is Casey Dunn, a writer and corporate affairs consultant based in Orange, New South Wales.
For more than 30 years, Australia’s rural R&D corpor... |
| 18.06.2024 | AgriFutures growAG launches in New Zealand | PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AgriFutures growAG., the Australian agritech innovation platform, today announced its launch in New Zealand.
Agritech New Zealand founder and agritech venture capitalist, Peter Wr... |
| 02.05.2024 | Is AI the Catalyst for Public Sector Change? | In an era where the digitisation of public services is no longer a luxury but a necessity, progress depends on effectively leveraging data insights. Digitisation holds greater significance now as the Spring Budget highlights the government’... |
| 02.05.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oishii bags another $15m, BTG launches Betagro Ventures, HeavyFinance eyes Ukraine | This week, Thailand-based food company Betagro (“BTG”) launched its own venture arm to invest in early-stage agtech and foodtech startups. Oishii, which grows high-end berries via vertical farming, nabbed $15 million to build out a new sola... |
| 29.04.2024 | How rural women are breaking stereotypes one podcast episode at a time | Kirsten Diprose. Source: Women's Agenda. article-article-body
New research shows rural women are producing their own independent podcasts. Kirsten Diprose argues that ironically, it’s the traditional inequality of rural areas that’s been th... |
| 09.04.2024 | From ‘honey laundering’ to fake caviar: The seven types of food frauds | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
After enjoying what seemed to be a lovely meal, what if you were told the prawns you’d just eaten were injected with an unknown gel to make them look plumper and weigh more? Or the expensive wine you... |
| 23.10.2023 | Rural women’s business award is a “gift that keeps on giving” for winemaker Ali Paulett | Ali Paulett, managing director of Paulett Wines. Source: supplied article-article-body
South Australia’s 2023 winner of the AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award is encouraging other women to apply for the prize, which she says has had a huge imp... |
| 09.10.2023 | Aussie agtech startups shaping the future of carbon capture | Australian startups are working hard to change the way we monitor, manage and report soil carbon sequestration to provide the world with more effective tools in the fight against climate change.
With an ambitious goal to cut carbon emission... |
| 25.10.2022 | NEW REPORT: Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech startup funding defies global decline in 2022 | It’s widely accepted that 2022 is a difficult year for the global financial markets. Asia-Pacific’s venture capital and agrifoodtech industries are by no means immune; investment flows to the region’s foodtech and agtech startups reached ju... |
| 28.06.2022 | Newcastle honey industry decimated by deadly new parasite putting a third of Australia’s food at risk | The varroa mite was detected in Newcastle last week. Source: BigBlueStudio/Adobe.
Newcastle beekeeping enterprise Urban Hum has shut down its operation and will have 90 hives destroyed after a deadly parasite finally hit our shores, putting... |
| 20.04.2022 | How lab-grown meat and insects are changing Australia’s protein industry | Chefs Neil Perry and Corey Costelloe in the kitchen, cooking up the Vow Food feast. Source: supplied.
As demand for alternative protein sources grows, Australians are increasingly looking for options that are healthy, sustainable and ethica... |
| 29.03.2022 | Unlocking food’s dark matter | It is often said that the food system is broken.
It is not broken.
Instead, it was designed over time to effectively and efficiently produce and distribute safe, inexpensive, and highly caloric food. While hunger has been materially reduced... |
| 19.11.2021 | We built Australia’s first agtech venture capital firm. Here’s what we learnt | Tenacious Ventures co-founders Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet. Source: supplied.
Three years ago, we launched Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first specialist agrifood tech venture capital firm, with a blog post and newsletter titled, Austra... |
| 03.11.2021 | Davren Global’s innovative insect control is just what the grain industry ordered | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia. The author is Casey Dunn, a writer and corporate affairs consultant based in Orange, New South Wales.
On-farm storage is now a feature of many Australian crop... |
| 29.10.2021 | Rubens Technologies is taking fruit quality testing to the next level | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia. The author is Megan Woodward, a journalist and communications specialist based in Yandina Creek, Queensland.
Daniel Pelliccia, CEO and co-founder of Rubens Te... |
| 20.10.2021 | The good oil: Australian innovation delivers game-changing alternatives to petroleum & palm | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia. The author is Casey Dunn, a writer and corporate affairs consultant based in Orange, New South Wales.
One of humanity’s oldest crops has had a makeover thanks... |
| 20.09.2021 | The next generation of wine & spirits tech is ripe for investment | Editor’s note: This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia.
The author is Darren Baguley, a writer, farmer, and regenerative agriculture consultant based in Rylstone, New South Wales.
Ageing wine and spi... |
| 04.06.2021 | 4 reasons insects could be a dietary staple | June 4, 2021 6 min read
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. This story originally appeared on The Conversation
By Bryan Lessard , CSIRO and Rocio Ponce-Reyes , CS... |
| 11.05.2021 | Is sustainability reporting ready for its Xero moment? | Editor’s note: This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia.
The author is Oli Madgett, co-founder and CEO of Adelaide-based precision ag app Platfarm and a member of AgriFutures’ Ignite Advisory Panel, w... |
