News and Analysis on Global Agri-Tech Innovation, Investment and Regulation
A new partnership between plant biomanufacturing start-up Foray Bioscience and New York-based nut tree breeder Z’s Nutty Ridge aims to overcome one of agriculture’s hardest scaling problems: how to commercialise elite varieties of long‑lived perennial...
Thai farmers living in areas heavily affected by climate change are twice as likely to suffer from depression, with recent flooding events acting as a primary trigger for severe psychological distress.
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit San Francisco 2026
Tanimura & Antle’s tech stack includes everything from laser weeders to digital platforms to drip irrigation
Demos report warns nearly one in five farms operate at a loss. But shifting to sustainable methods could deliver a £1.6bn annual profit uplift
Château Puybarbe teams up with Finland’s Kuva Space to bring next‑generation space imaging into everyday vineyard management
Sinar Hijau Ventures (SHV) is rebuilding Maluku’s spice value chain to lift farmer incomes and move communities away from extractive work that harms its biodiverse forests.
Dilmah Tea says retail’s relentless discount culture is undermining tea growers and stripping plantations of the resources needed to stay sustainable.
A new partnership between crop‑protection heavyweight Certis Belchim and agri‑biotech specialist Elicit Plant aims to fast‑track a next‑generation bio‑solution designed to help potato growers withstand intensifying climate pressures
Agri‑tech innovation is often synonymous with automation, robotics, AI and gene‑edited crops. But for many farming communities around the world, transformative technology looks very different. Sometimes it’s not an algorithm or a sensor, but a tool...
The UK’s first crop of ‘low‑carbon’ potatoes has arrived on supermarket shelves, marking a milestone in efforts to prove that more sustainably produced foods can secure both retailer backing and mass‑market consumer uptake
Mayani and Hillridge Technology are setting out to test a new way to shield the Philippines’ vulnerable fisherfolk from extreme weather events with timely insurance payouts and offtake agreements in a new UK-backed pilot.
Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has approved a new methodology enabling livestock producers to earn carbon credits by feeding cattle methane-reducing additives.
Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) and Arkadiah Technology are partnering to address structural weaknesses in forest carbon measurement in South East Asia, aiming to enhance monitoring and protection of tropical forests.
The European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture says its new Regen Compass provides a trusted, farmer‑centred navigation tool to bring clarity and integrity to Europe’s fast‑growing but fragmented regenerative agriculture landscape
Japanese aquaculture firm Smolt Inc. has successfully cultivated farmed cherry salmon twice the usual size by using a heat-tolerant, selectively bred strain and an all-female triploid system.
A new land-based aquaculture facility in Iwate, Japan, has been built to scale regenerative sea urchin farming, upgrading low-value urchins while helping to prevent marine desertification.
Pinstone Pulse report finds 92% of farmers feel unrecognised for on‑farm sustainability progress – deepening a disconnect already flagged in last year’s Barclays‑commissioned analysis
With sugar beet under pressure in France’s climate‑stressed Grand Est region, the French MMRV specialist teams up with beet producer Cristal Union and the University of Reims to harness AI, primary data and a farm ‘digital twin’ to accelerate the...
Vietnam’s coffee sector grapples with land legality and plot-level traceability are the country’s most pressing hurdles to meeting the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), say experts.
Weak monitoring, unreliable registration data and poor compliance are driving the mounting losses across the Philippines’ fishing sector.
The ten-year Yangtze fishing ban has driven advancement in China’s aquaculture, improving quality, sustainability, and industrial resilience.
A Japanese field study installed solar panels above crops and found rice yields remained stable compared to soybean and sweet potatoes, demonstrating the possibility of combining renewable energy generation with food production.
Vietnam’s Trong Duc Cacao is working with Japan-based Tromsø to apply cocoa shell-derived biochar in a circular agriculture to boost farmer incomes and yields.
New research hub aims to fast‑track regenerative practices across McCain’s 4,400‑farm global network as latest data shows progress slipping from 71% to 69%
The 250‑farm initiative in south‑west France aims to boost soil health, water stewardship and long‑term supply chain resilience for the £47.7m Green Giant brand
The long-term viability of oyster farming requires better understanding of how combined stressors like temperature and acidity interact to affect growth and survival.
Redox Bio-Nutrients has certified the composition, efficacy, and safety of its Mainstay Si product with The Fertilizer Institute, as farmers across the globe search for ways to reduce their input costs amid market volatility
State of the Sector
In this State of the Sector report, AgTechNavigator examines how rice production is evolving under the pressures of climate volatility, labour shortages and rising costs, highlighting how innovation and policy is impacting this important staple crop.
Vietnam faces tougher market access as the Philippines tightens rice standards, even while planning to import large volumes, says the vice president of the rice association.
Blue carbon projects can offer Vietnam’s growing fisheries sector a way to mitigate its bottlenecks and pave the way for sustainable growth, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Climate tech firm Atoco is targeting agriculture as it moves towards a commercial rollout of its atmospheric water harvesting technology within the next year.
A new paper challenges assumptions that agriculture is inherently more sustainable than marine fisheries, arguing that moving away from the latter will intensify biodiversity losses.
Helios AI is helping East African coffee growers determine how to grow and when to sell their crops, through a Gates Foundation-funded pilot project
South Korea agriculture ministry lays out plans to convert livestock manure into solid fuel and aims to generate enough electricity to power 38,000 households by 2030.
South Korea’s agriculture ministry has outlined a U$162.2m research and development push targeting five key areas including AI-driven farming, biotechnology, and climate resilience.
Tech giant Microsoft continues its carbon credit buying spree, this time by supporting a forestry project in Northern Uganda in partnership with Rubicon Carbon
China’s farm ministry reports that it has made significant gains in the last five years in its efforts to make domestic agriculture greener and more efficient.
Vietnam agriculture sector records massive losses across crops and livestock to the “severe and extreme” natural disasters in 2025.
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A new partnership between US-based Heritable Agriculture and German plant breeding giant KWS aims to accelerate genetic improvements in feed crops using AI-driven gene discovery – unlocking nutritional and sustainability gains across the agricultural...
PepsiCo did not just spend 2025 launching the latest on-trend snacks and beverages, as the consumer packaged goods (CPG) giant doubled down on its technological investments and innovation — all in effort to secure its supply chain
COP30 was a major branding event for Brazil’s sustainable ag sector, fueling investor interest in regen ag, AI, and digital farming
German chemical company to sharpen focus on vitamins and carotenoids
Vietnam’s coconut industry adopts organic fertilisers, biologicals and medicinal herbs in cultivation, improve fruit quality, stabilise production, and increase the sector’s value and competitiveness globally.
World Vegetable Centre’s okra trials show biochar can simultaneously increase vegetable yields, improve soil health, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting its potential as a cornerstone of climate-smart, regenerative agriculture.
Aussie startup said to have the ‘economics figured out’
As climate volatility and aggressive pathogens threaten global banana production, SynTech Research Group is investing in drone spraying, digital monitoring, and precision agriculture – while expanding its biologicals portfolio – to safeguard one of the...
Vietnam will draw on Japan’s expertise to modernise its disaster risk management as it faces increasingly extreme climate events expose its agriculture sector.
Rabobank data unpacks the connection between tech investments, sustainable farming practices, and receiving premiums
Hemp seed and genetic company Flura is working with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to demonstrate the potential of biosolids for use in sustainable agriculture and hemp production
Nestlé has formalised a partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE) to promote regenerative, low-emission farming, underscoring its confidence in the country’s long-term potential.