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[ad_1] Singapore-based agribusiness Olam has secured loans worth $176 million from International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the World Bank‘s investment arm – and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Olam will deploy the capital to boost the smallholder-dominated commodity crop sector across Asia and Africa. This will include a drive towards more widespread use of […]

[ad_1] GROW – the Southeast Asian agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder – is inviting startups from across the Asia-Pacific region to apply for its new program focused on food security: Singapore Food Bowl. With the initial support of Enterprise Singapore and Dole Packaged Foods, Singapore Food Bowl brings industry and startups together to build more resilient, […]

[ad_1] For the third episode of our new What The Fork? Digitalks by AgFunder series, AgFunder was joined by S2G Ventures, the world’s most active foodtech and agtech venture capital investor, to exclusively discuss new research conducted by the firm. S2G recently published a report looking at how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the global […]

[ad_1] Even before a global pandemic led to sweeping shelter-in-place orders, the idea of growing food at home was rather en vogue. As far back as 2017, reports showed that one in three Americans were growing some of the food they ate at home.  Now, as the pandemic pinpoints weaknesses in the food supply chain […]

[ad_1] Ag Biotech, which includes on-farm inputs for crop & animal ag including genetics, microbiome, breeding, animal health, cooled down in 2019 compared to prior years. Startups in the category raised $1.1 billion in funding, according to Agri-FoodTech Investing Report, but deal activity dropped 22% year-over-year while dollar investment declined 33%. Despite the slow down, […]

[ad_1] This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner, ahead of its fifth annual conference, hosted virtually on Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 4pm CET (11am ET). Registration is open here. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank and Wageningen University & Research. Read about F&A Next 2019 here. If anything is made clear by […]

[ad_1] The Yield has raised A$11 million ($7.13 million) in an ongoing round led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley – the VC arm of Japanese automaker Yamaha Motor. [Disclosure: The Yield is an AgFunder portfolio company. AgFunder is the parent company of AFN.] German tech and engineering giant Bosch, already a shareholder […]

[ad_1] There is no shortage of farm management software platforms in the marketplace. It’s become one of the most saturated segments of agri-foodtech, contributing the largest number of deals of any category, according to our recent Farm Tech Investment Report. And it’s one of the most mature; it contributed agtech’s first digital unicorn exit with […]

[ad_1] Lehe Food, an online wholesale and supply chain platform for agricultural produce, has raised ¥400 million ($56 million) in its Series C funding round. The round was co-led by Hong Kong-based asset manager CDH Investments – a new backer – and existing investor Longzhu (‘Dragon Ball’) Capital, which is the VC arm of on-demand […]

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Jeff Caldwell is content marketing manager at Lessing-Flynn, a marketing and advertising agency based in Des Moines, US. Previously, he was editor of Successful Farming and the High Plains Journal. The views expressed in this article are personal. Agriculture business owners around the US can’t find the right qualified labor to get […]

[ad_1] Editor’s note: Tanmay Bhargava is head of Asia Pacific at Intello Labs. Based in Gurugram, India, Intello Labs uses machine learning tech to grade the quality of agricultural produce. Intello Labs is a member of the first cohort of GROW, AgFunder’s Asia agrifoodtech accelerator. AgFunder is the parent company of AFN. Read more about […]

[ad_1] There is huge scope for improvement in the farming of aquatic crops. Historically, these were overlooked in favor of soil-based staples. So most startups diving into the aquatic crop world need to wrestle with a legacy of incomplete plant science and a dearth of harvest data compared to the arable crops we know well […]

[ad_1] Hatch is inviting startups to apply for the fourth cohort of its aquaculture-focused accelerator program. It’s looking for eight to 10 companies from anywhere in the world, at seed or pre-seed stage, to join the 15-week program. Applicants should have a team of at least two people who can communicate in the English language, […]

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Sarah Nolet is the CEO and founder of AgThentic, a global food and agriculture strategy firm, and co-founder of Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first dedicated agrifood tech VC firm. Sarah is also the host of the AgTech…So What? podcast and co-founder of Farmers2Founders, a national innovation program that supports farmers to get involved […]

[ad_1] Agriculture has been one of the main sectors implicated in the global debate around climate change. Although many stakeholders agree that changes need to be made to reduce food production’s impact on the environment, knowing where to start and which practices would have the most impact is a challenge. McKinsey & Company sought to […]