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Unilever adds four ag-related open innovation challenges to its Open Innovation portal. Unilever will consider partnerships with established suppliers, startups, academics, designers, individual inventors — anyone with a practical innovation that can help them meet their challenges. Explore new Unilever challenges:  Plant Protein & Beyond: People’s...

Farm Bureau will award $165,000 in startup funds to 10 businesses, culminating at a live pitch competition at the 2022 AFBF Annual Convention in Atlanta, Ga. The Ag Innovation Challenge winner will be awarded $50,000 total in prize money. The Ag Innovation Challenge runner-up team...

Aquaculture—the farming of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic animals for food—has reached unprecedented levels of growth in recent years, but largely without consideration of its impact on individual animals, finds a new analysis by a team of researchers. "The scale of modern aquaculture is immense and...

Several initiatives have been undertaken by the public and private sectors to boost the country’s agriculture. Those who have dined in farm-to-table restaurants like The Farm Foodcraft in Bangsar South might have already encountered agritech in the form of hydroponics. While the dining concept is unique,...

As the Biden administration turns to environmental concerns, one of its top priorities will be how to better protect the world’s oceans. With more than 80 percent of the world’s fishstocks at or near collapse, some marine conservationists suggest that aquaculture might help counter the...

Indoor AgTech Landscape 2021 provides a snapshot of the technology and innovation ecosystem of the indoor food production value chain. The landscape spans from component technology companies to providers of complete growing systems to actual tech-forward indoor farm operators. As before, the landscape is not...