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  • Crop Science Innovation in 2025: The Frontline of Climate Resilience
    Agriculture & Food

    Crop Science Innovation in 2025: The Frontline of Climate Resilience

    In 2025, agriculture is no longer just about yield—it’s about survival. As climate volatility intensifies, land…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    September 16, 2025

    4 min read

  • Generating Carbon Offsets in Carbon Farming
    Agriculture & Food

    Generating Carbon Offsets in Carbon Farming

    Soil carbon and carbon farming deal with organic carbon that is present or stored in soil. …

    By Zainab Gilani
    August 6, 2025

    4 min read

  • Biostimulants Are The Quiet Hero in the Quest for More Sustainable Agriculture
    Agriculture & Food

    Biostimulants Are The Quiet Hero in the Quest for More Sustainable Agriculture

    The world’s food supply is approaching a critical threshold. With the need to nearly double crop…

    By Jack Ellis
    June 18, 2025

    4 min read

  • Hydrogen Storage and Thermal Insulation Start-ups Win Asia Liveability Challenge
    Agriculture & Food, Asia, Cross-Sector Insights

    Hydrogen Storage and Thermal Insulation Start-ups Win Asia Liveability Challenge

    Innovators working on passive cooling and hydrogen storage technologies took the top two available prizes at…

    By Jack Ellis
    June 17, 2025

    4 min read

  • How This Leading Producer of Starch & Noodles is Driving Climate Resilience through Technology
    Agriculture & Food

    How This Leading Producer of Starch & Noodles is Driving Climate Resilience through Technology

    Earlier this week we revisited one of two Cleantech Forum Asia 2024 sessions on agri-food innovation,…

    By Jack Ellis
    May 1, 2025

    4 min read

  • Coffee Without Beans, Medicine from Insects: Food Waste Innovation in Asia
    Agriculture & Food

    Coffee Without Beans, Medicine from Insects: Food Waste Innovation in Asia

    With Cleantech Forum Asia 2025 just around the corner, it’s an opportune time to revisit some…

    By Jack Ellis
    April 28, 2025

    4 min read

  • PFAS Destruction
    Agriculture & Food, Waste & Recycling

    PFAS Destruction

    PFAS, sometimes known as forever chemicals, are a family of over ten thousand compounds with remarkable…

    By Parker Bovee
    March 26, 2025

    4 min read

  • China and the EU: Comparing Two Tech-Forward Plans for the Future of Food Production
    Agriculture & Food

    China and the EU: Comparing Two Tech-Forward Plans for the Future of Food Production

    China and the EU: Comparing Two Tech-Forward Plans for the Future of Food Production The EU…

    By Jack Ellis
    March 18, 2025

    4 min read

  • AI is About to Massively Accelerate Innovation in Crop Inputs
    Agriculture & Food

    AI is About to Massively Accelerate Innovation in Crop Inputs

    Demand for food is surging, with projections indicating that crop production must nearly double by 2050…

    By Jack Ellis
    February 6, 2025

    4 min read

  • Agtech Insights: The Importance of Strategics on Your Company’s Cap Table
    Agriculture & Food

    Agtech Insights: The Importance of Strategics on Your Company’s Cap Table

    Last November’s Thrive Global Impact Summit brought together several hundred entrepreneurs, investors, and senior executives in…

    By Jack Ellis
    January 23, 2025

    4 min read

  • Energy Crops: Fuel Feedstock of the Future?
    Agriculture & Food

    Energy Crops: Fuel Feedstock of the Future?

    Non-food crops offer a promising source of feedstock for biofuel production, providing an alternative to the…

    By Jack Ellis
    December 13, 2024

    4 min read

  • The Future of Food Traceability: Cleantech Innovations
    Agriculture & Food

    The Future of Food Traceability: Cleantech Innovations

    The food industry is under immense pressure to balance consumer demand for transparency, regulatory compliance, and…

    By Sunena Gupta
    November 20, 2024

    4 min read

  • Insect Farming: Making the Leap from Protein Pipedream to Bio-commodities
    Agriculture & Food

    Insect Farming: Making the Leap from Protein Pipedream to Bio-commodities

    There was a time, not so long ago, when insects were being touted as the solution…

    By Jack Ellis
    October 29, 2024

    4 min read

  • 2024 Cleantech 50 to Watch
    50 to Watch, Agriculture & Food, Energy & Power, Materials & Chemicals, Resources & Environmental Management, Waste & Recycling

    2024 Cleantech 50 to Watch

    It is our pleasure to bring you this sixth edition of the Cleantech 50 to Watch.…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    October 16, 2024

    4 min read

  • Taking A Byte of Transparency: The Tech Behind Agri-Food Traceability
    Agriculture & Food

    Taking A Byte of Transparency: The Tech Behind Agri-Food Traceability

    As consumers demand more transparency around the safety and sustainability of the food they consume, governments…

    By Sunena Gupta
    September 17, 2024

    4 min read

  • Tackling Agrifood Waste: A Major Opportunity for Sustainable Innovation
    Agriculture & Food

    Tackling Agrifood Waste: A Major Opportunity for Sustainable Innovation

    Waste in the food and agriculture industry is an enormous yet often overlooked contributor to global…

    By Jack Ellis
    August 29, 2024

    4 min read

  • Trash Talking: Three Approaches to Food Waste Valorization in Asia
    Agriculture & Food

    Trash Talking: Three Approaches to Food Waste Valorization in Asia

    I recently had the pleasure of moderating a discussion on food waste valorization at the FHA…

    By Jack Ellis
    July 23, 2024

    4 min read

  • Crop Inputs Hold the Key to Climate-Resilient Food Production in a Warming, More Populous World
    Agriculture & Food

    Crop Inputs Hold the Key to Climate-Resilient Food Production in a Warming, More Populous World

    As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events become more frequent, ensuring food security for a…

    By Jack Ellis
    May 29, 2024

    4 min read

  • Cleantech Trends in APAC: A Look Back at 2023 and Forward to 2024
    Agriculture & Food, Asia, Energy & Power, Materials & Chemicals, Resources & Environmental Management, Transportation & Logistics, Waste & Recycling

    Cleantech Trends in APAC: A Look Back at 2023 and Forward to 2024

     Our annual APAC Cleantech 25 was released on April 18th, 2024 – this is always a…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    May 15, 2024

    4 min read

  • Promising Signs For Precision Fermentation?
    Agriculture & Food

    Promising Signs For Precision Fermentation?

    Precision fermentation has the potential to solve multiple pain points for the growing alternative protein industry,…

    By Jack Ellis
    April 29, 2024

    4 min read

  • Distributed Fertilizer Supply Is Crucial for Future Food Security and Sustainability
    Agriculture & Food

    Distributed Fertilizer Supply Is Crucial for Future Food Security and Sustainability

    Synthetic fertilizers play a pivotal role in global food production, with nitrogen-based fertilizers alone supporting the…

    By Jack Ellis
    March 27, 2024

    4 min read

  • Crop Robotics: Interview with Bluewhite’s Alon Ascher on $39M Series C
    Agriculture & Food

    Crop Robotics: Interview with Bluewhite’s Alon Ascher on $39M Series C

    Agriculture is among the industries most heavily reliant on manual labor. But as global demand for…

    By Jack Ellis
    January 26, 2024

    4 min read

  • Valorizing Agrifood Waste Streams into Biochar
    Agriculture & Food

    Valorizing Agrifood Waste Streams into Biochar

    Biochar is a carbon-rich powdered or granular substance produced by burning organic biomass in a low-oxygen…

    By Buff López
    January 8, 2024

    4 min read

  • Cultivated Meat Slashes Emissions
    Agriculture & Food

    Cultivated Meat Slashes Emissions

     Animal agriculture is critical to human survival and wellbeing. The farming of livestock, including land-based animal…

    By Jack Ellis
    November 29, 2023

    4 min read

  • Can Plant-Based Protein Ease Livestock’s Environmental Burden?
    Agriculture & Food

    Can Plant-Based Protein Ease Livestock’s Environmental Burden?

    The livestock industry accounts for approximately 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions while also using huge…

    By Parker Bovee
    October 2, 2023

    4 min read

  • How Crop Robotics Can Make Our Food System More Sustainable
    Agriculture & Food

    How Crop Robotics Can Make Our Food System More Sustainable

    In all but the poorest countries on Earth, the number of people working in agriculture is…

    By Jack Ellis
    August 29, 2023

    4 min read

  • Reversing Agriculture’s Emissions with Carbon-Fixing Soil Inputs
    Agriculture & Food

    Reversing Agriculture’s Emissions with Carbon-Fixing Soil Inputs

    Agricultural soils emit millions of tons of carbon each year. These microbes and minerals help to…

    By Jack Ellis
    July 5, 2023

    4 min read

  • Alternative Approaches to Sustainable Food Production
    Agriculture & Food

    Alternative Approaches to Sustainable Food Production

    The interest in sustainable food production is driving alternative approaches to growing, fermenting, culturing, synthesizing food…

    By Todd Allmendinger
    April 25, 2023

    4 min read

  • Should We Wait for a Global Soil Carbon Regulatory Policy?
    Agriculture & Food

    Should We Wait for a Global Soil Carbon Regulatory Policy?

    Farmers are looking beyond conventional production of crops and animals and exploring the option of capitalizing…

    By Alex Crutchfield
    April 5, 2023

    4 min read

  • Sensing and Satellite Technology Advances are Unlocking Carbon Markets for Farmers
    Agriculture & Food

    Sensing and Satellite Technology Advances are Unlocking Carbon Markets for Farmers

    Agriculture has a compelling role to play in decarbonization, as it has the potential to both…

    By Jack Ellis
    February 28, 2023

    4 min read

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