Gene Editing is Promoting These Crop Improvements
Gene Editing is Promoting These Crop Improvements Chart of the Week – Gene Editing is Promoting These Crop Improvements The discovery of gene editing technology is sparking multi-billion dollar investment in companies seeking to develop new crop traits, with nutrition, and pest resistance and climate resilience among top targets. Gene editing involves making highly specific […]
How Blockchain Can Green Food Production
How Blockchain Can Green Food Production Chart of the Week – How Blockchain Can “Green” Food Production In the same way as blockchain has proven its ability to assure transactions for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, we find more than 30 startups seeking to apply the technology to prove the authenticity of sustainable and ethical food […]
How Is AI Disrupting Food Production? .
How Is AI Disrupting Food Production? Chart of the Week – How Is AI Disrupting Food Production? This week, we review what agri-food tech sectors are seeing most companies flaunt their use of AI, in a disruption of food production which could lead to a gentler impact on the planet. At New Food Finance, our […]
Start-Up Founders: Carbon & Traceability in, Indoor Farming out
Start-Up Founders: Carbon & Traceability in, Indoor Farming out Chart of the Week – Start-Up Founders Target Carbon & Traceability At New Food Finance, our focus is driving a green transition in food production. We follow more than 3,200 companies, and have classified these according to more than 1,700 sectors, sub-sectors, markets and technologies that […]
Insect-Based Protein: Seeking a cost breakthrough
Insect-Based Protein: Seeking a cost breakthrough Chart of the Week – Leading companies, Insect-based protein Insect-based protein has attracted some $2.5 billion of startup investment to date, and could play an important role in the future of food production, if it can capitalise on strong growth through 2022, close cost parity with conventional protein, and […]
Green Ammonia Fertiliser: Elusive Output
Green Ammonia Fertiliser: Elusive Output Chart of the Week – Leading companies, Green Ammonia Fertiliser Investment Green ammonia fertiliser producers are attracting private investment, rising to more than $800 million last year, but this remains tiny in comparison with the conventional annual fertiliser market, worth more than $200 billion annually, while green ammonia fertiliser output […]
Biotech is coming to food and ag
Biotech is coming to food and ag Chart of the Week – Cumulative Investment by Agri-Food Biotech Sector By Jenna Chow Biotech companies account for a third of all investment into start-ups in the sustainable food and ag sector, over the last decade, at $33 billion, showing how the agri-food sector can be disrupted by […]
Cultivated Meat: Florida Opposition vs the Opportunity
Cultivated Meat: Florida Opposition vs the Opportunity By Jenna Chow “Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” said Governor Ron DeSantis, on May 1. “Our administration will continue to focus on investing in […]
Precision fermentation’s promise to revolutionise food
Precision fermentation’s promise to revolutionise food Figure 1. Annual fund-raising deals: fastest-growing precision fermentation themes By Jenna Chow Food production processes today rely heavily on agriculture and animal husbandry, bringing huge, negative environmental risks. As such, the food industry is actively seeking sustainable and animal-free alternatives to traditional ingredients. One of the fast-growing technologies in […]
How investable is regen ag?
How investable is regen ag? Figure 1. Cumulative investment in “regen ag” themes Regenerative agriculture is gaining popularity, as a way to cut the farm-level environmental impact of food production, and while its prescriptions are sometimes vague and voluntary, technology themes are emerging that are attracting investors. Regen ag is a more pragmatic alternative to […]