The decarbonization of the planet will be the next major disruption of the century, according to SOSV managing general partner Sean O’Sullivan and Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Verdi aims to give farmers granular control over crop irrigation
Verdi, which launched today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, refers to its smart valve clusters as “swarms.” The term denotes the kind of high-density implementation the company is looking to roll out in farms across North America. Retrofitted with existing irrigation technology, the aim of its system is to give farmers more control over the irrigation […]
Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology
The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. With distance […]
卵不使用の植物性マヨネーズがなぜいまシリコンヴァレーで注目されるのか？
近年見かけるようになった卵不使用の植物性マヨネーズ。地球環境に配慮しタンパク質を動物に頼らない代替食品はビル・ゲイツやピーター・ティールなどの投資家たちも注目している。ただ、卵不使用のマヨネーズはそもそも70年代から存在する。なぜいまになってシリコンヴァレーで騒がれているのか。そこには調味料の巨大市場を狙うスタートアップの思惑がある。
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Desertification is turning the Earth barren – but a solution is still within reach | David R Montgomery
The expansion of drylands is leaving entire countries facing famine. It’s time to change the way we think about agricultureDavid R Montgomery is professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington, and author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization…
Carbon Robotics secures $27M for its autonomous field weeders
Agricultural robotics firm Carbon Robotics (not to be confused with our former Battlefield contestant) announced this week that it has secured $27 million in funding. The round — which features Anthos Capital, Ignition Capital, Fuse Venture Partners and Voyager Capital — follows an $8.4 million Series A raised back in 2019. The company’s total funding […]
世界の胃袋を満たすことになる培養肉、その原点となる牛の細胞株を求めて
世界の人々の胃袋を満たし、地球を救うためには、科学者たちがある細胞を見つける必要がある。いまや培養肉の研究者たちは、未来のハンバーガーの設計図となる牛の完璧な細胞株を見つけようと躍起になっているのだ。これまで生物医学の多くの発展に貢献してきた細胞株は、培養肉にとっても“秘伝のソース”となるはずだ。細胞株をめぐる培養肉業界の秘密主義と科学者たちの攻防を追う。
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Rewilding: should we bring the lynx back to Britain?
Reintroducing the big cats could control deer numbers and enrich ecosystems but farmers and the public need reassurance, say expertsThe maverick rewilder Derek Gow is wearing an extremely small pair of coral pink shorts as he introduces his three new E…
農機大手のジョンディアは、シリコンヴァレーの技術で「農業の自動化」を加速させる
米国の大手農業機械メーカーとして知られるジョンディアが、農場用の完全自律型トラクターを開発するシリコンヴァレーのスタートアップを買収すると発表した。米国では農業の自動化が加速しているが、人工知能（AI）の進歩がその動きを後押しする可能性が高い。
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“a moonshot that might just land”
Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem? If cellular agriculture is going to improve on the industrial system it is displacing, it needs to grow without passing the cost on to workers, consumers and the environ…