Top Sources for a Circular Food Economy

Top Sources for a Circular Food Economy Chart of the Week – Top Sources for a Circular Food Economy Agri-food technology has a big role to play in a global transition to a circular economy, by substituting some traditional food and feed as well as non-renewable plastics and chemicals, with renewable or upcycled products, from […]

Graphic of the Week – 4 Innovations in Cultivated Meat

4 Innovations in Cultivated Meat Graphic of the Week – 4 Innovations in Cultivated Meat Cultivated meat companies are relentlessly focused on securing regulatory approval, and driving down costs, as the two key hurdles to secure a mainstream market, where we highlight four key areas of innovation. Cultivated meat, also known as cell-based or lab-grown […]

Antibiotic Resistance: Bacteriophages Solutions

Antibiotic Resistance: Bacteriophages Solutions Graphic of the Week – Antibiotic Resistance: Bacteriophages Solutions Bacteriophages are an emerging crop input and animal feed solution to growing antibiotic regulations, as many regions seek to control agricultural antibiotics, for human safety, and to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. New Food Finance tracks trends and investments in foodtech and agtech companies […]

Green Shoots? Fund-Raising Jumps in October

Green Shoots? Fund-Raising Jumps in October Chart of the Week – Green Shoots? Fund-Raising Jumps in October It is too early to call – but October may have seen a first green shoot, after a venture capital fund-raising meltdown through the second half of 2023 and most of 2024 to date. New Food Finance tracks […]

Antibiotic and methane rules fuel animal feed innovation

Antibiotic and methane rules fuel animal feed innovation Chart of the Week – Antibiotic and methane rules fuel animal feed innovation The use of sustainable livestock feed additives is growing, driven by advances in animal nutrition science, and growing regulatory scrutiny, for example around antibiotic use in agriculture, and methane emissions. We summarise key relevant […]

Precision Fermentation Nears Milk Protein Disruption

Precision Fermentation Nears Milk Protein Disruption Graphic of the Week – Precision Fermentation Nears Milk Protein Disruption Precision fermentation may be poised to disrupt key agri-food markets, extending successes in high-end uses for human medicine, by using microbes to create animal-free proteins, where precision fermented (PF) milk has the largest near-term potential. New Food Finance […]

Bacterial Pesticides: Beating the Incumbents

Bacterial Pesticides: Beating the Incumbents Graphic of the Week – Bacterial Pesticides: Beating the Incumbents Microbe-based pesticides have sustainability advantages over chemicals: they may be less toxic, target pests more specifically, break down quickly and harmlessly, and they may be less likely to trigger pest resistance. However, questions remain over their relative efficacy and price […]

Spectroscopy: Lighting up Agri-Food Start-Ups

Spectroscopy: Lighting up Agri-Food Start-Ups Graphic of the Week – Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024 Spectroscopy technology is seizing the imagination of agri-food start-ups, in new applications from precision ag measurement of soil nutrients, biology and carbon, to foodtech applications, verifying crop ripeness or food quality. Complex data interpretation, plus high upfront costs, has historically […]

Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024

Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024 Chart of the Week – Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024 Robotic tractors are emerging as a commercial proposition, especially in the context of farms with large, flat fields, where ease of use coupled with labour and fuel savings are starting to build an economic case. Challenges include farms of unusual […]

Startups set to benefit from regen ag asset management

Startups set to benefit from regen ag asset management Chart of the Week – Startups set to benefit from regen ag asset management Three deals in the past month show how regen ag is emerging as a “real asset” class, within farmland, drawing asset managers expecting both food and environmental market income streams, as well […]