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Renewably powered aeroponic farms can significantly reduce the environmental impact of fresh produce compared to imports, new study finds
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new research paper titled “The role of aeroponic container farms in sustainable food systems – The environmental credentials” has found that wind or solar
New government funding given to innovative agriculture
Reading Time: 3 minutes Defra has announced that they will be allocating £9.13 million to three innovative projects for research & development on strategies to increase agricultural production, sustainability,
Project to develop robotic harvest system matching human speed
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new project aims to tackle the lack of seasonal labour in the UK horticulture industry as researchers look to accelerate the delivery of robotic
UK firms expand into S’pore through global incubator programme
Reading Time: 3 minutes Churning out alternatives to animal proteins can often be an expensive and lengthy process, but new software by British firm New Wave Biotech aims to
Old Macdonald had a robot: Driverless tractors appear on farms
Reading Time: 5 minutes For generations, enormous tractors with ruddy-cheeked farmers at the wheel have been a familiar symbol of countryside and farming life. Soon, however, the sight of
Harvest London secures funding for its 13,000m2 vertical farm in South London
Reading Time: 2 minutes Foresight Group, the listed sustainability-led alternative investment manager, is pleased to announce it has reached an agreement with Harvest London, a UK-based controlled environment agriculture
Bayer collaborates with Microsoft to unveil new cloud-based enterprise solutions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Following a 2021 strategic partnership announcement with Microsoft, Bayer today launched new cloud-based solutions for the agri-food industry: AgPowered Services from Bayer in combination with
Research: Co-locating crops and solar can increase performance
Reading Time: 2 minutes Growing commercial crops on solar farms can both increase commercial food production and improve solar panel performance and longevity, according to new Cornell University research published in
The future of food? Pioneers hail advances in vertical farming
Reading Time: 7 minutes Empty shelves have become as common as tomatoes are rare but, according to experts, Scotland’s depleted supermarkets expose the fragility of our food supply chain.
France launches 500 million euro support scheme for agri-food sector
Reading Time: < 1 minute France has moved to support its agri-food sector, which is suffering from high costs and struggling to compete on world markets, including by launching a
New Directions: Embracing Innovation for a Brighter Food Future!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our food system is at a major turning point. Now, more than ever before, we need to embrace innovation and creativity to be able to
Connected farming and the IoT
Reading Time: 3 minutes Agriculture is one of the oldest fields of human activity, but today it cannot remain aloof from total digitalization. Through the development of modern technology
BerryWorld partnering with vertical farm to secure year-round supply
Reading Time: < 1 minute Global berry supplier BerryWorld has announced a strategic partnership with Dutch agtech enterprise SMARTKAS. SMARTKAS is currently the largest vertical farm in the UK, and is set to provide BerryWorld
Bayer links up with Kimitec for biological crop protection
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bayer and Kimitec have announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialisation of biological crop protection solutions and biostimulants. As part of
Winged robot smaller than a pea could pollinate crops
Reading Time: < 1 minute A miniscule robot that flies by wind and is controlled by light could help to pollinate crops. Researchers at Tampere University in Finland have developed the Flying
Agritech 4.0: New technologies and leading players to watch
Reading Time: 5 minutes The agritech industry is turning to industrial IoT and other technologies as firms aim to solve the challenges of feeding a growing global population. The
Scaling up gene-edited food
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sonia Jassi reveals how the biosynthetic industry must prepare for scale The biosynthetic industry, especially those organisations working with gene-edited food, has long been seen
Can agritech really transform the future of food?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Feeding the world is getting trickier. The sharp rises in the cost of living that followed the Covid-19 crisis have only been exacerbated by the
Cropin secures funding from investors including Google
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cropin, the global agritech company which built the world’s first industry cloud for agriculture, has secured funding from new investors Google and JSR Corporation, as
How far can vertical farming go?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Vertical farming promises a future in which our food is grown in pockets of spaces in our cities and beneath our feet. But how far