Top 10 Agri-Food Cleantech Deals in 2023: Lessons

The Top 10 Agri-Food Cleantech Deals in 2023: What Have We Learned? Top 10 cleantech agri-food fund-raisings, 2023 The top 10 fund-raisings in agri-food cleantech companies last year saw a broadening of funded sectors and financing sources, as companies and investors adapted to a pull-back in venture capital funding and valuations, and new technologies stepped […]

The Opportunity in Soil Carbon and Nature Measurement

The Opportunity in Soil Carbon and Nature Measurement Tech companies that support on-farm production of environmental goods and services, such as carbon sequestration or crop pollination, are seeing sharply growing investment, where measurement of these public goods may be the biggest opportunity, as key to unlocking carbon and nature markets. At New Food Finance, we […]

New Food Finance Weekly Insight: Integrated Pest Management Goes Hi-Tech

Integrated Pest Management goes High-Tech Integrated pest management (IPM) refers to farm best practices that minimise use of chemical pesticides, for example only to spray when pests are actually present, having passed a critical threshold, and use of non-chemical alternatives including natural pest predators. IPM comprises common sense practices, and is a mainstay of lower […]

Can agricultural technology keep pace with climate change?

Can agricultural technology keep pace with climate change? Top 10 cleantech agri-food fund-raisings, 2023 Agricultural technology companies are racing to help food producers keep pace with climate change, using tools and technologies, ranging from remote sensing, to crop gene editing, and AI-backed smart irrigation. Climate change poses a threat to food and farming, as a […]

Investing in methane mitigation in the agri-food sector

Investing in methane mitigation in the agri-food sector Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and agriculture is a major source of its emissions worldwide. Tackling climate change will hinge on cutting these emissions, and fast. Within the farming sector itself, methane is also a significant greenhouse gas, accounting for more than a third of agriculture’s […]