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Olam Group is to divest its IT and digital services business Mindsprint, which serves multiple clients across the food and agri-sectors, to technology services and consulting company Wipro for US$375 million.
Consumer preference, tech barriers and ‘murky supply chains’ are threatening biodiversity in Asia and thwarting the potential of aquaculture to play a wider role beyond feed and food.
A bioplastic created from bamboo has been found to match oil-based plastics, and unlike many other biomass products does not rely on food-competing sources.
Amid a challenging investment landscape and fluctuating market forces, we are shining the spotlight on indoor ag to gauge its future prospects and opportunities for growth.
Startups from Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are being sought for a new accelerator programme from ClimAccelerator and Better Earth Ventures.
New plant-breeding techniques offer huge opportunities to scale controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and make new products profitable, but greater industry, academic and policymaker buy-in is needed for success.
Finding the perfect agtech solutions for the local reality is the holy grail for innovation, and it’s unlikely these will all come from Silicon Valley, says Golden Agri-Resource’s (GAR) chief sustainability and communications officer.
Everyone knows we need to produce more food, with fewer resources. But how is Asia’s agri-food sector turning words into action, and what more urgently needs to be done?
Fourteen start-ups offering disruptive, scalable solutions and technologies for the climate-stressed agricultural regions of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia will take centre stage at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in Dubai on December 9-10.
Research led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) has revealed that aesthetic grading, which focuses on the appearance of apples, leads to significant food losses without economically benefiting farmers.