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Covid and 'peak cow' created a boom for food and agriculture tech in 2020 CNBC 2 days ago Lora Kolodny Food and agriculture start-ups attracted a record $22.3 billion in venture funding last year — twice as much as these segments raised in 2019, according to a new study by Finistere Ventures. With people stuck at home during the Covid pandemic, demand spiked for food e-commerce, such as meal kits and deliveries. The world also saw how a crisis could disrupt the normal production, processing and distribution of food. Arama Kukutai, a partner at Finistere, said that drove in...

Responding to these shifting trends, food tech funding flowed into related services. Food tech companies raised around $17.3 billion across 631 deals for the year. Sixty-eight percent of that went to e-commerce and delivery businesses. Meal kits alone raised $6.2 billion, and e-commerce companies raised $5.3 billion within the food tech category. The largest deal last year was an $800 million round of funding for the Chinese group-buying app for groceries, Xingsheng Youxuan. The world also saw how a crisis could disrupt the normal production, processing and distribution of food. Farmers had t...

Senate Republicans revealed their counter offer to President Joe Biden's infrastructure package GOP proposal costs $568 billion and focuses on traditional infrastructure There is money for roads, bridges, airports, transit and broadband internet To pay for their proposal, Republicans would use a combination of user fees and on redirecting unspent federal dollars  Jen Psaki said the GOP plan is a starting point for a conversation  She said Biden would invite lawmakers to White House to discuss it 

Here's What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work. Corbis via Getty Images Civilian Conservation Corps worker Carl Simon installs insulators on top of a telephone pole about 1940 in Superior National Forest in Minnesota. It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes in your town, even killed a few of your neighbors. Your house was fine, but you lost power for weeks. The waterfront park wh...

Courtesy of BASF RESEARCH UNDER WAY: Researchers collaborate on a project inside a BASF greenhouse facility, seeking new products to help solve environmental and economic challenges. Hi-Tech Farming: Research for solutions to environmental and economic challenges ramps up. BASF is serious about developing new products and strategies to help farmers produce crops in more environmentally and economically sustainable ways. Spokespersons say that with solutions expected to launch from its pipeline within the next decade, BASF expects to reach its goal of annually increas...