Charlotte Douglas, COO of Row 7 Seed Company, writes about the importance of diversifying our seed varieties and the role chefs play in shaping what we eat.[...]
AgTech innovation is on fire. From vertical farming and aquaponics to open-source farming and farm management, there is a growing crop of startups using data and technology to make[...]
From Phil Lempert's roundup of food retail trends for 2015 to Fluc and Feastly's funding announcements, these are last week's top food tech news stories.[...]
$1.79 billion was pumped into ag and agtech in August, Singapore's gov't announced a $63 million fund for farmers and Village Capital launched an ag accelerator. [...]
July saw $2.4b in ag and agtech funding, 4 new agribusiness funds launched worth a total of $198m, and several Gov't grants were announced worth $10.2b combined.[...]
$401M has been pumped into 35 AgTech companies from January to mid-July, with Cool Planet Energy Systems, Marrone Bio Innovations and Chromatin, Inc raking in $176M combined. [...]