By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Vow Food is tackling the challenges of hunger, food security, human health, and environmental degradation through ethically expanding the diversity of our options by using animal cells to grow meat in a laboratory. If you could try alpaca, or water buffalo, or even an entirely new type of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Peptyde Bio, the first company spun out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center by Danforth Technology Company (DTC), a wholly owned subsidiary formed by the Danforth Center in February of this year, announced it has closed on an oversubscribed $1.2 million Pre-Seed round backed by Danforth Technology Company, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ranch land accounts for about 28 percent of the more than 600 million acres that make up the U.S. landmass. Unlike tropical forests that sequester most of their carbon in vegetation, grazing land ecosystems hold as much as 90 percent of its carbon in the soil, according to the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The human love affair with chocolate has roots going back at least 2,000 years when cultures in the Americas began growing cocoa to use the beans to make a spicy drink including hot peppers. Today, 70 percent of the world’s cocoa bean supply comes from West African countries – […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment unit of Bayer AG, is the lead investor for the latest funding round for NuCicer, a California-based agri-food tech startup pioneering ultra-high protein chickpeas. Joining Leaps by Bayer were Blue Horizon, Trellis Road, and Lever VC, which led funding for the company in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Roslin Tech, the Edinburgh-based food and agtech specialist, announced its close on an £11 million (US$11 million) Series A led by Novo Holdings that will fuel the next wave growth toward its goal of becoming the leading provider of animal cell lines to the cultivated meat sector. Joining Novo […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In January of this year, GAI News shared that London-based controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technology and research startup Vertical Future raised what was acknowledged as the largest round to be closed in the European CEA industry. More recently, in September of this year, we shared that German cannabis company […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media These facts come at you fast. Currently, agriculture uses 70 percent of the world’s freshwater supply, and by 2050, the UN estimates that we will need to produce 50 percent more food to meet demand – indicating a water increase of 40 percent by the end of this decade. […]
photo credit: Lithos By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sometimes the best answer is found in the simplest approach. Carbon sequestration and reduction is at the forefront of how we address climate change, leading to the development and launch of a range of carbon capture technologies and solutions. The stakes are high – not only […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ara Partners, a private equity investor focused on backing companies producing consumer products using cost-saving and low-carbon technologies, has committed $65 million to bio-based ingredients company BioVeritas. Already the majority shareholder in the company, this additional capital from Ara Partner will be used by BioVeritas to support the rapid […]
