🌾 Aphea.Bio, a Belgium-based provider of microbial solutions for agriculture, has submitted its first applications to the United States U.S. EPA for federal approval of its biofungicides, VALORIA and VIRTUOSA.
agtechnavigator.com/Article/2024/0…

🧫🥩 French startup Vital Meat has submitted a regulatory dossier for its cultivated chicken to Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland.
greenqueen.com.hk/vital-meat-uk-…

🌱🍳🥛 Another US state limits people's food choices.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a bill that restricts the labeling of plant-based and cultivated meat and egg alternatives.
greenqueen.com.hk/iowa-plant-bas…

🤝🥩 Ivy Farm and Synbio Powerlabs partner to scale up the production of cultivated meat using mammalian cells in large food-grade fermenters.
thecellbase.com/posts/ivy-farm…

🌱🤝 The Vegetarian Butcher, a subsidiary of Unilever, has partnered with EVERY® to enhance its plant-based meat products using EVERY EggWhite, a proprietary animal-free egg white produced through precision fermentation.
vegconomist.com/cultivated-cel…

🇸🇬🛒🥩 Eat Just, a Californian cultivated meat pioneer, launches its GOOD Meat chicken in the retail market at Huber’s Butchery in Singapore.
greenqueen.com.hk/eat-just-good-…

🌾💰 Berlin-based agtech startup hexafarms has secured €1.3M in pre-seed funding to enhance its AI and machine learning capabilities and expand its team of R&D experts.
eu-startups.com/2024/05/berlin…

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🇳🇿🌾💰 Metrovate, a New Zealand-based company, has raised $1M from Sprout Agritech LP to develop the nation’s first precision biostimulant for agriculture.
scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2405…

🌱🥩 The Green Alliance report commissioned by the The Good Food Institute Europe highlights the potential of alternative proteins to reduce Europe's reliance on imported foods and achieve self-sufficiency, with supportive policies playing a crucial role.
greenqueen.com.hk/alternative-pr…

🇮🇩🌾 Elevarm, Indonesia’s integrated farming productivity platform, has raised US$2.6M in a seed funding round to develop 15 new organic products and establish a new fertilizer production factory.
e27.co/elevarm-raises…

🌾💰 PitchBook's Q1 2024 Agtech Report reveals a market correction in the Agtech industry, with global venture capital investments starting the year on a subdued note. agtechnavigator.com/Article/2024/0…

🐄🥛 Mars Inc. has unveiled a US$47M plan to reduce the carbon footprint of its dairy sourcing, a significant contributor to its greenhouse gas emissions.
mars.com/sustainability…

🍃 Could the air we breathe be the solution to our problematic food system?

In the latest edition of FoodTech Explained, we dive deep into the process of gas fermentation, its different applications, and the startups in the space. Read it in full here: forwardfooding.com/blog/foodtech-…

🌾 This year, PepsiCo's APAC Greenhouse Accelerator Program include a new focus on sustainable agriculture, recognizing its importance in food systems.
agtechnavigator.com/Article/2024/0…

🧫🥩 Alabama has joined Florida as the second US state to ban cultivated meat, making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or distribute such products.
greenqueen.com.hk/alabama-cultiv…

🧫🥩 Cultivated meat company Meatly introduced a groundbreaking protein-free culture medium, a first in the industry, aiming to revolutionize cultivated meat production.
foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2024/0…

🍄🥩 Nosh.bio, a biomass fermentation startup focused on B2B applications, has conducted successful production trials and is poised to produce 'thousands of tons' of its mycoprotein ingredient annually.
cultivated-x.com/fermentation/n…

🍄🥩 Mycelium-based meat maker meati foods has secured a significant funding boost of $100M in a C-1 funding round to support its efforts to meet the increasing demand for its products.
fooddive.com/news/meati-foo…

🍫💰 Voyage Foods, known for its ethical pantry products like cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads, has secured a significant $55M in a Series A+ funding round.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…