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Agri-tech can help biodiversity, but will it? 📰 A new report from Superorganism on agri-tech/AgTech just dropped into my inbox, with perfect timing as it's a topic I've been thinking about since attending the Innovation Forum's Future of Food event last month. From genetically engineered crops to digital resource management, tech can help. 🤔 What I'm struggling with is who is going to invest in these innovations, and why? Agriculture is a notoriously fragmented market; what farmers have the funds or the risk appetite to develop new innovations? And for all their talk on supply chain sustainability, what would really give the big food companies enough reason to make this their problem? 🥩 Where it's a case of technology completely disrupting a supply chain, as with precision fermentation or lab grown meat, the commercial questions are completely different. The jury's out though on whether those technologies will scale enough to really make a dent in how we source our food - a topic Catherine Joce and I differ on! Knowing what a huge part of the #biodiversity challenge the food sector represents makes me loathe to ignore it, but my faith that there's enough commercial will to make any serious change is on shaky ground.

Molecular farming uses plants to produce valuable proteins and compounds, transforming how we source ingredients for food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. This cutting-edge technology reduces reliance on animal agriculture and minimizes environmental impact. At SparkFood, we support companies pioneering molecular farming to build sustainable supply chains and meet growing demand for ethical products. Together, we’re shaping the future of innovation and sustainability.

Emerging technologies offer one of the most promising paths to decarbonize the agriculture industry, but a lack of financial returns remains one of the biggest barriers for farmers to embrace an agtech revolution, according to Agriculture Dive. Adopting rotational grazing and cover crop practices alone will not be enough to reduce carbon emissions, experts say. Sustainable farm practices, along with changes in consumer diets and adoption of new technologies, could help the sector hit net-negative emissions, according to a study from PLOS Climate. However, with many of these technologies at their early stages, companies, startups and farmers will need to move fast if they want to realize the full benefits of these innovations. Continue Reading: https://lnkd.in/gTcFyuNM #Agribusiness #DigitalFarming #AgTech #AI #PrecisionAg #Sustainability

Why do we invest in such a diverse array of technologies, innovations, and platforms? A bit of reflection on this central question in the wake of several really important conversations in the last month, from our global research & development conference, to our Chicago Innovation Update, to my visit to India. We are mission-bound to help farmers around the world use our systems of solutions - as opposed to using individual products - to enhance their productivity and drive a more resilient food system. This is why our investment in R&D far surpasses our peers in the agriculture industry. We have the capabilities to do more and to deliver more value to farmers than ever before. The spokes around this circular path closely align with our five innovation engines - breeding, plant biotechnology, biologicals, crop protection, and digital tools. Each one of them is a complementary piece of the whole that makes up regenerative agriculture. When we talk about producing more, restoring nature, and scaling regenerative agriculture, innovation is the enabling foundation that makes it all possible, and that makes this moment in time ripe for change as we enter an era of both unprecedented challenge, but also unprecedented opportunity to address challenges. #RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #AgInnovation

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