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What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk?
September 2, 2019. Richard Martyn-Hemphill. This really was an extraordinarily wacky and perhaps controversially ‘Homo Deus’ news story — GM goats who had been transplanted with a spider’s silk-making genes to transform their milk into something much less drinkable and much more silky. Yet this was all years ago now.
Farmers Business Network (FBN) looks back on 10 years
Dec 18, 2023 · In 2014, Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande were concocting an idea that was practically unheard of in agriculture. “The goal was to put the world of agriculture at the farmers’ fingertips and empower them through information, technology and a network,” Baron tells AgFunderNews. Farmers Business Network, commonly known as FBN, was born of ...
Online ag marketplaces: An entry point for farmers into
May 4, 2021 · As internet connections spread further into rural areas and smart devices penetrate the world’s largest agricultural markets, more opportunities to use technology for the benefit of farmers are being unlocked. According to BlueWeave Consulting, the total value of the global digital farming market is expected to reach $10.2 billion by 2025.
Regenerative Agriculture Investing: 70 Investment Groups Worth …
Jul 11, 2019 · This week, a new report, cleverly called Soil Wealth, has come out detailing the level of investment in regenerative agriculture-related projects and the numbers are surprisingly high: there are some 70 investment strategies with assets under management of over $47.5 billion, and that’s just in the US. Just to clarify, that amount includes ...
Agriculture impact investment funds can now measure their …
Mar 23, 2023 · The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a new tool for agriculture impact investment funds to measure the impact of their investments against others.; Eighteen agriculture impact investment funds have contributed data about some 1,200 investments to the agriculture impact benchmark, 16 of them contributing to its design.; The agriculture impact performance benchmark enables ...
Farm robotics startup farm-ng bags $10m - AgFunderNews
January 18, 2024. Jennifer Marston. California-based farm-ng has raised a $10 million Series A round to deploy more of its modular robotics for small- and mid-sized farms. Acre Venture Partners led the round with participation from Xplorer Capital, HawkTower and 10 other institutional and individual investors. Funds will go towards building out ...
One Acre Fund aims to safeguard farmers facing climate change
Jan 10, 2024 · Starting with a premium volume of $1.5 million, which it intends to increase to $4 million in a couple of years, One Acre Fund will offer insurance to 1 million smallholder farmers this year at premiums up to 30% lower. The fund has started out with Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Malawi; initiatives in Tanzania, Burundi and Zambia are planned for ...
How fertilizer companies are using technology to stay relevant
Aug 5, 2019 · The consumption of fertilizers has grown nearly six-fold between 1961 and 2015 (from 32 to 184 million nutrient tonnes), to keep up with a population expanding from 3.1 billion to 7.4 billion during the same period. Today, fertilizers feed about 50% of the world’s population which amounts to around 20 billion meals per day.
Diving into Tepbac: Why AgFunder invested
May 1, 2023. Angela Tay. Editor’s Note: Aquaculture startup Tepbac recently landed a $2.25 million pre-Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, AgFunder and Son-Tech Investment. Angela Tay, senior investment associate at AgFunder Asia, explains why AgFunder chose to invest. Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.