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Reading Time: 2 minutes Small and medium-sized farm businesses will be able to apply for a share of £5 million to fund innovative ideas aimed at boosting sustainable food
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Small and medium-sized farm businesses will be able to apply for a share of £5 million to fund innovative ideas aimed at boosting sustainable food

Reading Time: 2 minutes A fresh collaboration has been announced between Growing Kent & Medway and Canterbury Christ Church University to establish connections between horticultural and food and drink

Reading Time: 3 minutes UPP, the company specializing in harvesting technology and broccoli protein, has led a consortium of AgriFoodTech researchers and engineers, including the James Hutton Institute and

Reading Time: 2 minutes A new research initiative seeks to assist farmers and producers in the UK in achieving Net Zero and enhancing crop resilience. The £5.9 million Centre

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK researchers have announced they will develop molecular priming technology to counter the effects of climate change on crop growing. Scientists at the James Hutton

Reading Time: 2 minutes Led by the University of Bath, the cell ag hub will help British scientists and companies make cultivated meat at scale. The initiative aims to transform meat production

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Northern English biodiversity tech start-up company, AgriSound, has won European funding for a research and development project set to change the pollination of commercial

Reading Time: 8 minutes The issue of how to feed a growing population, and do it sustainably, is a crucial issue for the 21st century and has been brought

Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Cornell University have completed the first study that provides a comprehensive picture of changes in gene expression

Reading Time: 4 minutes These are just some of the inventions created by the talented men and women under 30-years of age who have made this year’s Forbes magazine’s

Reading Time: 2 minutes Together with aeroponic technology experts LettUs Grow (UK), Wageningen University and Research (NL) are conducting side-by-side trials to evaluate ultrasonic aeroponic and hydroponic irrigation systems. The trials’

Reading Time: 2 minutes A new agritech partnership is launching in Gloucestershire to encourage growth and innovation in the sector. The Gloucestershire Agri-Tech Partnership is a collaboration between the
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