By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Despite being a contributor, agriculture is also one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. But regenerative growing practices, which work with nature to optimize the health of the entire ecosystem, offer growers the ability to build healthy soils that can protect crops from uncertain rainfall patterns, reduce […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UN postulates that global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will remain unmet unless investments in nature-based solutions more than double by 2025, to $384 billion per year.  Doing their part, Equator VC has led a $4.2 million funding round for Downforce Technologies, a UK-based climate tech leader […]

By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media (This interview is reprinted from our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness Today.) A geographer at heart with more than 15 years in academia as a research assistant and professor, Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft was the perfect candidate to establish NASA Acres (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), a new U.S.-focused agriculture […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As a means to spark the circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made an initial investment of $2 million in Costa Rica-based ProNuvo, a startup focused on the sustainable production of insect-based animal feed.  With the global population on track to […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has announced a groundbreaking carbon offset credit transaction through which it will provide up to 8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to Microsoft through 2043.  Recognized as the largest known carbon dioxide removal credit deal to-date by MSCI Carbon Markets, the credits will […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched three years ago, AgriFutures growAG  is an initiative of the Australian government through the AgriFutures Research and Development Corporation. Over the course of its existence, it has connected the global agrifood network of researchers, investors, universities, government agencies, companies and corporates, facilities, and more by making introductions for […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) announced an award of $3.4 million from the  Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing (IAG) grant program – part of the USDA’s Rural Development program – for the Passamaquoddy Tribe to build a controlled aquaculture eel farm, as opposed to relying on wild eel […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Latin America currently accounts for 16 percent of the world’s total food exports, a figure that the UN FAO expects to increase to 25 percent by 2028. And, as food security has grown to be recognized by international investors as a strategic asset class, Mexico is a high-potential market […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s Food Cycle Science Corporation (FCS) has received institutional funding from Power Sustainable Lios (PSL), the sustainable agrifood investment group of Power Sustainable, for its award-winning electric food waste recycler that transforms food scraps into a dry, odor-free by-product avoiding methane emissions that result from food breaking down in […]

Photo credit: EIT InnoEnergy By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Swedish startup Nordluft is securing new capital from Södra Ädla, Sweden’s largest forest-owners association and international first industry group, and EIT InnoEnergy, which has supported Nordluft since 2018, for its innovative drone technology offering a novel solution for sustainable forest management.  “We are thrilled that […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Mirova, an affiliate of sustainability-focused investor Natixis Investment Managers, has formed a strategic partnership with The Rainforest Alliance to scale up locally led and nature-based solutions.  This partnership has its foundation in the mutual dedication to promote sustainability across food and agriculture, biodiversity, conservation, and climate resilience.  With 35 […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indonesian aquaculture tech startup eFishery broke records in 2022 when it successfully closed on a $90 million Series C to become the world’s largest aquaculture tech startup in the world.  Continuing the momentum, the company has now announced it has secured $30 million in operating capital from HSBC Indonesia […]