Cargill Joins Growth Funding Round for ENOUGH, Agrees to Use and Market its Mycoprotein
February 22, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill is expanding its partnership with food tech company ENOUGH by joining its most recent growth funding round, and by signing a commercial agreement to use and market ABUNDA, ENOUGH’s signature sustainable and vegan protein created by fermenting fungi fed by renewable feedstocks. F
Read moreLester Asset Management Launches Canada’s First Biodiversity Fund
February 22, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biodiversity is the interconnected network that supports life as we know it. It is ideally designed, with each animal species, plant, insect, natural resource, and climatic phenomenon playing a distinct role in the majestic and graceful machine that is Earth. Being born into it for
Read moreReflections on 2023 Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Trends
February 21, 2024
By S2G Ventures This is the second installment of a series looking back on our report, "Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023." Read Part 1 of this series, Reflections on 2023 AgTech Trends. In March of 2023, we published a white paper entitled “Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023.” Almost a year later, we explore the
Read moreWeedOUT Raises $8.1M Series A to Combat Weed Resistance
February 21, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media WeedOUT’s approach is inspired by sterility techniques successfully used since the 1940s for controlling pest populations like flies and mosquitos. Since the inception of these sterility techniques 80 years ago, insect control using these methods has not encountered any issues of resistanc
Read moreGresham House Launches $380M Biodiversity Fund Anchored by Willis Towers Watson
February 20, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Gresham House has launched the Gresham House Biodiversity Co-Invest LP (GHBC), a new sector specialist strategy to accelerate the deployment of nature-based solutions to mitigate biodiversity loss while gaining strong financial returns. Anchoring the strategy, which has a funding go
Read moreClean Growth Fund Backs HutanBio to Advance Algae-Based Biofuel
February 20, 2024
photo credit: HutanBio By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by scientists from Cambridge University and in Malaysia, biotech company HutanBio has a mission to disrupt the biofuels industry through the commercialization of HBx, its carbon-negative biofuel designed to serve the transition to net zero in the marine and
Read moreMaking The Investment Case for Regenerative Agriculture
February 19, 2024
New white paper from SLM Partners synthesizes the latest research and draws from their investment experience By Paul McMahon, Founder and Managing Partner, SLM Partners Regenerative agriculture is a hot topic right now. It is being embraced by policymakers, agribusinesses, asset managers and investors as the future of food and a g
Read moreRegenerate Asset Management Completes First Regen Ag Investment
February 16, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Climate impact investment manager Regenerate Asset Management announced the finalization of its inaugural investment through its first-of-its-kind Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund (RESA Fund). Reinforcing its core mission to drive impactful and immediate environmenta
Read moreFA Bio Closes on £5.3M to Discover Microbes for Game-Changing Bioproducts
February 15, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media British biotech company FA Bio announced it has closed on £5.3 million (US$6.68 million) to continue its work discovering superior microbes for bioproducts that will improve soil health, increase crop yields, protect biodiversity, and replace chemical inputs to reduce greenhouse gas emissio
Read moreSource Agriculture Raising $75M
February 15, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. farmland investment company Source Agriculture (Source Ag.) is currently raising up to $75 million to fund its goal of bringing to bear its vision and new approach to farmland investing. The process started in November 2023, when the company engaged counsel and began its filing of a
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