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Target Tests Food Transparency Innovations from its CoLab with MIT and IDEO...
Food + Future coLab is now testing two new technologies aimed at finding out what information consumers want about their food while they shop. The post Target Tests Food Transparency Innovations from...
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Who Will Win the Agribusiness Marketplace Race for Inputs?
We caught up with Curtis Garner from Bowles Farming, who has been assessing the way the business purchases its inputs in the hope of saving costs, to find what he thinks about all the agribusiness...
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Tesco’s Head of Agriculture: Controlling Water Quality is a Key Issue No One...
We can spend a lot of money on feed rations, but if the animal’s gut integrity is wrong because of bacteria in the water line, that nutrition is wasted and is also a welfare issue, says Barney Kay,...
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Kuli Kuli launches moringa products into 2,500 Walmarts
Kuli Kuli is driving the moringa products market in the US with over 50% of a segment that's now in 3% of US households. The post Kuli Kuli launches moringa products into 2,500 Walmarts appeared first...
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World Bank, Tesco, Sodexo, pledge to combat food loss and waste
What do the World Bank, Tesco, and Sodexo have in common? Well, they made huge commitments to slashing food waste at Climate Week NYC. Read on for details. The post World Bank, Tesco, Sodexo, pledge to...
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Why Dan Vradenburg joining Trace Genomics as CEO is a big deal
Daniel Vradenburg is the former president of Wilbur-Ellis and the board chair of Cavallo Ventures and now he's joining soil science startup Trace Genomics. The post Why Dan Vradenburg joining Trace...
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EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Agrando closes seed funding for online agribusiness...
The design process is about not patronising farmers with solutions they do not need, but realizing farmers as concerned about boosting their bottom line in a tight margins business. "Every farmer is a...
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Unfazed by Covid-19, Infarm arrives InJapan and InCanada
Vertical farming venture Infarm's Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food. The post Unfazed by Covid-19, Infarm arrives...
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Behind the greens: Why greenhouse lettuce is not competitive yet
Editor’s note: Peter Tasgal is a strategic consultant to the food and agriculture industries and co-founder of the Farmbook Project, based in Boston, US. The views expressed in this guest article do...
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With a fresh $31m, Too Good To Go wants to make saving food as easy as...
Too Good To Go (TGTG) is fighting food waste in the supermarket with a new $31 million funding injection led by Blisce. Existing investors also participated in the round and employees were given the...
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Brief: Tesco brand bows out of Asia after Thai food giant’s $10bn buyback
The last visible vestiges of Tesco‘s Asian retail operations are set to disappear as Malaysian and Thai stores carrying the UK company’s name undergo a rebrand. Bangkok-based Charoen Pokphand Group...
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Brief: Rakuten, KKR buy into Walmart’s Japanese supermarket giant Seiyu
Tech company Rakuten and investment firm KKR have completed their purchases of stakes in Seiyu, one of Japan’s largest supermarket chain operators. Rakuten subsidiary Rakuten DX Solution — which is...
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Consumers think grocery stores have a lot more work to do on sustainability
US consumers think grocery stores and chains can do much more to boost the sustainability of their supermarkets, according to a recent survey from software company Retail Insight. The firm’s original...
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African B2B e-commerce platform Wasoko raises $125m in Series B round
Wasoko — the Nairobi-based B2B platform formerly known as Sokowatch — announced this week that it has raised $125 million in Series B funding. The investment was co-led by Tiger Global and Avenir...
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If you want to know why Beyond Meat released plant-based jerky, look at its...
Last week, a new product from Beyond Meat hit shelves in the US. Beyond Jerky is — you guessed it — a plant-based analog of the much-beloved dehydrated, salted beef snack that comes in three flavors...
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Brief: Gotham Greens raises $310m to build greenhouses across the US
US-based indoor farming startup Gotham Greens has landed $310 million in Series E funding to expand its greenhouse facilities in the US. BMO Impact Investment Fund and Ares Management led the round,...
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The Production Board invests in Brazil’s largest ag retailer in SPAC deal to...
The Production Board (TPB), the investment company created by Climate Corp founder David Friedberg, is investing $100 million in Brazil’s largest ag retailer — Lavoro — in a special purpose acquisition...
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Indoor ag has hit ‘a bump on the S curve,’ not the trough of disillusionment...
There are plenty of labels these days for the state of controlled environment agriculture (CEA): depression; correction; the increasingly popular “trough of disillusionment,” that thrive-or-die low...
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Fresh funding in hand, Shamba Pride aims to digitize last-mile distribution...
For years, Samuel Munguti was bothered by the broken system that is last-mile distribution of farm inputs in Kenya. In 2016, he launched Shamba Pride with the sole mission of fixing these...
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