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[ad_1] Expanding the cold chain across the African continent is both necessary and hard. A better network of cold storage facilities is necessary to drive down food waste and enable wider access to fresher produce. And it’s difficult due to high installation costs and all sorts of risks, most notably those surrounding intermittent electricity supplies […]

[ad_1] Digital Agriculture Services (DAS) has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Firemark Ventures – the VC arm of Australian insurance giant IAG. The strategic investment will see the Melbourne-based farm analytics startup partner with IAG to speed up the process of risk assessment for rural insurance customers, and enhance the ability to carry out such […]

[ad_1] According to the headlines, a new challenge has risen for our agriculture industry, with China suspending Australian beef exports as trade barriers escalate. However, these bans need to be placed into context. We’ve faced far larger challenges than this before. Throughout economic downturns, decades of drought, devastating fires, and the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis, farming has […]

[ad_1] Regulators across the world are gradually pushing back against the overuse of chemicals on crops. Just last week, for instance, the European Commission set out proposals to reduce pesticide use in the EU by 50% by the end of the decade. But as strong a push as that may seem, farmers need not panic: these proposed […]

[ad_1] NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and fertilizer, has raised €10.2 million ($11.2 million) in Series A funding, the company disclosed to AFN this week. According to AgFunder data, this is the largest early-stage agrifoodtech deal in Tunisia yet. Leading the round were a group of investors […]

[ad_1] Japan’s IntegriCulture has raised ¥800 million ($7.4 million) in Series A funding to help push its low-cost cellular agriculture platform to enterprise customers. Investors in the round include AgFunder, Beyond Next Ventures, Hiroshima Venture Capital, NH Foods, Real Tech Fund, and VU Venture Partners. [Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN‘s parent company.] Several other investors participated, including Caygan Capital‘s CEO Naruhisa Nakagawa. IntegriCulture co-founder and CEO Yuki Hanyu […]

[ad_1] The land grant ideals that have guided research, teaching, and extension at Iowa State University for more than 150 years have put the university at the forefront of agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the state and across the globe. With an enrollment of more than 33,000 students, Iowa State has built a strong base of programs. […]

[ad_1] “You have 130 million farmers plus their families who are vulnerable… Traditional urban insurance brokers do not understand [their] needs,” founder Jatin Singh told AFN. The post India’s GramCover banks pre-Series A funding for rural insurance network appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] A global pandemic provides the industry with an opportunity to demonstrate not only its staying power but its strong consumer demand, as well. The post Highly Essential? Legal cannabis continues to come of age despite Covid-19 appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America. The post Insects for animal feed startup Beta Hatch raises $3m Series A1 appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] If most people knew how some diseases threaten to take out their favorite foods, they’d go bananas. On average, humans around the world eat 130 bananas each year making them a staple but the global crop is at risk. Colombia declared a national state of emergency in 2019 when its banana crop, one of its top exports, […]

[ad_1] European Agri-FoodTech startups raised $3.4 billion in funding in 2019 across 419 deals, a 70% year-over-year growth, according to AgFunder’s latest research. Looking ahead to 2020, the picture is not so rosy with early indications of more muted funding levels between January and March of this year as the startup industry across sectors started […]

[ad_1] Urban farming gets a boost as the Singapore Food Agency and Housing & Development Board tender out nine multi-storey car park rooftops to growers. The post Singapore food and housing agencies to rent out public rooftops for urban farms appeared first on AgFunderNews. Read Original Report Here By Ag Funder News [ad_2]

[ad_1] This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank and Wageningen University & Research. Read about F&A Next 2019 here. A few years from now, the coronavirus pandemic may feel like a distant memory. For now, it seems to be […]

[ad_1] SoftBank – one of the world’s most active agrifoodtech investors last year – has reported a ¥1.9 trillion ($17.7 billion) annual loss on its Vision Fund startup portfolio. This staggering deficit from the Vision Fund – which SoftBank launched in 2017 with backing from Saudi Arabian sovereign fund PIF, UAE sovereign vehicle Mubadala, Apple, […]