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| Dec 5, 2019 | FarmlandFinder raises $3m seed round led by Cultivian to make farmland sales fairer | Des Moines-based startup FarmlandFinder has raised a $3 million seed round led by Chicago-based agtech VC Cultivian Sandbox with participation from Iowa Farm Bureau’s Rural Vitality Fund and Next Level Ventures. It previously raised an ange... |
| Nov 26, 2019 | Regen Ag Renegades: Blue Nest Beef is offering consumers ‘bird-friendly’ beef | There’s a growing number of online marketplaces offering to ship boxes of meat from the farm, direct to the consumer.
Not only do they promise to cut out the costly middleman, but many of them also offer consumers the labels they increasing... |
| Oct 16, 2019 | French poultry tech startup Tibot Technologies raises €3m seed round for health-boosting robot | When it comes to agtech impacting animal agriculture, we’ve written about IoT technology to track livestock, imaging to test for mastitis in dairy cows, computer vision technology to recognize each cow by her face, and giant digesters to co... |
| Oct 9, 2019 | Women in AgTech: Fighting machismo in Latin America | Forbes has been having a field day (or week) with a slew of women-centric stories, making their way around social media – the gem being their piece on how 2019’s women of The Forbes 400 are the wealthiest they’ve ever been, with a combined ... |
| Oct 3, 2019 | Perception is reality: data reveal gender bias in agri-foodtech investing | Female startup founders face more skepticism, loaded questioning, and smaller commitments from investors than their male counterparts. And female founders in agri-foodtech are no exception, according to a new report.
Just 7% of agri-foodtec... |
| Aug 21, 2019 | 10 Things To Know Before You Eat Out Of That “Compostable” Takeaway Bowl | 32
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You’ve surely seen the rise in fibre bowls. Light in weight, brown in colour, and clearly marked as compostable, biodegradable, plant-based – these have sprouted all over town in cafés and restaurants, replacing sty... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | 25 startups innovating with sustainable packaging solutions | Almost every day, it seems there is a new headline about the intensifying problem of plastic waste. National Geographic quantified the issue: 91% of plastic isn’t recycled. (In the US, 70% of plastics end up in landfills, according to the E... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | 5 questions with AquaBounty on feed ingredients, social license for GE animals, and regulation | The world may be laser-focused on “alternative” proteins from plants and cultured animal cells, but the animal tech sector is undergoing sweeping changes of its own.
Aquaculture is a prime example. The industry is the fastest-growing animal... |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Facing fury over ‘fake websites,’ Grubhub says restaurants have it wrong | It looked like yet another example of Big Tech’s overreach, a David-and-Goliath story pitting a massive internet platform against powerless individuals.
These were the facts: Grubhub, the food delivery firm, was buying up web domains named ... |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Grubhub bought 23,000+ potential restaurant website domains, report says | The uneasy relationship between third-party delivery providers and restaurateurs may be taking a turn for the worse now that news has broken that Grubhub and its Seamless unit have purchased more than 23,000 web domains that either use or a... |
| May 21, 2019 | A Q&A with Robert Saik: It’s Time to Get Big or Go Home for Agriculture Robotics | Robotics has been touted as a way to address some of the biggest issues in agriculture, namely when it comes to an ongoing labor shortage. Fifty-six percent of farmers in California alone have been unable to find enough workers in the past ... |
| May 9, 2019 | ‘We are relentlessly looking for female entrepreneurs, but there aren’t enough’ | AgFunder and its collaborators KK&P and The New Food Economy are excited to announce that S2G Ventures has become a sponsor of Money Where Our Mouths Are (MWOMA), an investigation into the funding gaps for female entrepreneurs in the ag... |
| Apr 10, 2019 | Europe’s Gene Editing Regulation Exposes the Messy Relationship Between Science and Politics | John van der Oost has a bone to pick with Europe. Van der Oost is a microbiologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research in the late 1990s contributed to the development of the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing technology which, ... |
| Mar 27, 2019 | Benson Hill Biosystems Acquires eMerge Genetics to Improve Nutritional Value of Crops with Gene Editing | Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology, predictive breeding, and gene editing technologies, announced at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco last week that it acquired the assets of S... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Nearly One-Third of US Farmland is Managed or Co-Managed by Women Farmers | Nearly 301 million acres of US farmland, or one-third of American farms, are managed or co-managed by women, according to a new report from the American Farmland Trust’s Women for the Land Initiative. Women landowners hold title to at least... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | How Wyoming is using blockchain to get ranchers premium prices for sustainably raised beef | Packaging materials solution company Avery Dennison’s retail branding arm, RBIS, and the Wyoming Business Council have tapped blockchain startup BeefChain to help ranchers who use certain management practices like rotational grazing or gras... |
| Dec 19, 2018 | Square Roots is bringing more transparency to its produce | If you’re concerned about what you eat, there’s a good chance you’ve looked at the food in the supermarket, or in your fridge, and wondered where it actually comes from. Now urban farming incubator Square Roots is introducing a new way for ... |
| Sep 21, 2018 | Can You Really be a Conscious Carnivore? | With the Conscious Carnivore Project, The New Food Economy recently investigated those ethical eaters (dubbed conscious carnivores) who choose to consume meat only under certain standards such as locally sourced and humanely raised without ... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Whole Foods workers seek to unionize, says Amazon is ‘exploiting our dedication’ | A group of workers at Whole Foods Market is leading an effort to establish a union for the Amazon-owned company’s 85,000+ workforce.
In a letter addressed to Whole Foods employees, the group — members of Whole Foods’ cross-regional committe... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare | Year after year, decade after decade, Republicans in Washington have lectured the American people about the need for “welfare reform.” In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan railed against a fictitious “welfare queen” driving a Cadillac. Just a few ye... |
| Aug 24, 2018 | Thousands of Amazon workers get food stamps. Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay for them | Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants large employers such as Amazon, Walmart and McDonald’s to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their employees. The goal, he said, is to for... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | New Age Meats: People are being fooled into thinking clean meat is just around the corner | “There are a few companies announcing ambitious timelines and making promises that are very aggressive and they could fool people into thinking clean meat is just around the corner,” claims Spears, a chemical engineer with a background in... |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: USDA Approves CRISPR-Edited Food While Bucking NOSB Recommendations, more | Doors Open for CRISPR Applications in Food, and Maybe People
The USDA will no longer regulate crops that have undergone gene editing, opening the door for applications of CRISPR technology in agriculture and food production. The decision ad... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Y Combinator Sweet On Cultured Meat, Granular Partners with Planet, Another Startup Pays for Data, more | Granular Partners with Analytics Company Planet
Granular, the digital arm of DowDuPont’s agriculture vision has partnered with Planet, an integrated aerospace and data analytics company to incorporate its global satellite imagery data into ... |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: More Exec Churn at Chipotle, EU Changes Protocol on GMOs, TechAccel Funds New Grants, more | Top Marketing Executive at Chipotle Steps Down
In the latest in a series of executive transitions at Chipotle Mexican Grill, the company’s chief marketing officer Mark Crumpacker announced he would step down. Chipotle has long struggled to ... |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Bowery Opening Second Farm, JUST Eyes Africa, Dan Barber Starts Selling Seeds, more | Dan Barber Launches Chef-Centric Seed Company
The latest initiative from a leader in the farm-to-table movement gets to the root of things – Dan Barber, chef at the restaurant Blue Hill announced his latest project: Row 7 Seed Co. The busin... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more | Tyson Foods Partners With Incubators Plug and Play and 1871
Tyson Foods is partnering with two incubators: Plug and Play, based in Silicon Valley, and Chicago’s 1871. Whether Tyson is eyeing the next disruptor in animal protein or seeking t... |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Syngenta Acquires FarmShots Plus More M&A, Trimble Joins THRIVE, more | Syngenta Acquires FarmShots For Undisclosed Amount
FarmShots, a North Carolina-based company, has been acquired by Syngenta for an undisclosed amount. FarmShots uses high-resolution satellite and drone imagery to deliver plant health analys... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Walmart Buys into VR, Nestle Bets on AI with Nuritas, Florida Citrus Growers Get Some Relief, more | Florida Citrus Growers Finally Receive Disaster Aid
Hurricane Irma dealt a heavy blow to Florida’s citrus industry, where orange production is down by 35% relative to last year from the one-two punch of hurricanes and the pervasive citrus-g... |
| Jan 5, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Cannabis News from Four States, World Bank Funds Ag Innovation, FDA in Hot Water Over Recalls, more | California Cannabis Regulations Do More Than Just Legalize
On January 1, California became the latest state to legalize cannabis and the largest market for legal recreational cannbis use. Dispensaries staffed by ‘bud-tenders’ are now servin... |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Perdue to Re-Evaluate GMO Reg Changes, Fish 2.0 Announces Winners, Bosch Partners on Driverless Tractor, more | Ag Secretary to Withdraw and Re-Evaluate GMO Regulation
US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced plans to withdraw Obama-era revisions to biotechnology regulations involving genetic modification and editing. The Secretary took the... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: USDA Votes to Allow Organic Certification for Hydroponics, Plenty Heads to Seattle, New Monsanto Partnership, more | USDA Votes to Allow Organic Certification for Hydroponic, Aquaponic Growers, But Not Aeroponics
The USDA’s National Organics Standards Board (NOSB) has ruled that hydroponic growers can continue to be certified organic in an 8-7 vote that h... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Soylent’s Canada Ban, Organic Valley 100% Renewable by 2019, China Produces Gene-Edited Pigs, more | Soylent Banned in Canada
Soylent, the meal replacement drink startup, has been banned in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency claims that the drink does not fulfill the nutritional requirements of a meal and therefore cannot be label... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: California Cuts Food Waste, Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban, Rabo Launches $1bn Fund, more | Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban
On Tuesday, October 24, the European Parliament will vote on whether to ban Monsanto’s controversial pesticide glyphosate in the next three years. The following day, the European Commission’s Standing Commit... |
| Jack Ma Retires From Alibaba, Tesla Shares Fall As Musk Smokes Weed On Webcast, And More: News From The Tech And Startup World [September 3-9] | We’ve kept you updated on the happenings in the Indian startup ecosystem. With the week coming to a close, it’s time to catch up on the important updates in the tech and startup ecosystem around the world.
All the news seems to have been ma... |