Regenerative seaweed company Coast 4C has raised US$2.5 million in a seed round to scale its platform linking smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia with global processors of carrageenan and other seaweed-derived ingredients. The round was led by the Blue Revolution Fund (BRF), a €92 million fund managed by aquaculture investor
Agricultural trade infrastructure company Maalexi has closed an oversubscribed funding round led by Tawuniya — a Saudi joint-stock insurance company listed on the Saudi Exchange under ticker 8010 — alongside Global Ventures, the UAE-based venture capital firm that also led Maalexi's pre-Series A. The round backs the development of MAATEX,
Chinese solar technology company Shanghai AIKO Solar Energy Company Limited and Kazakhstan's Atyrau Oil and Gas University named after Safi Utebayev (Utebayev University / AOGU) have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a zero-carbon smart agriculture demonstration park in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. The agreement was signed on the sidelines
French biotech startup Gene&GreenTK, based in Marseille, is coordinating a new four-partner consortium — BIOSPHÆRE — brought together to develop biological alternatives to conventional crop protection products for tomato cultivation. Partners include Lipofabrik of the Eléphant Vert Group, national agricultural research institute INRAE, and specialist testing laboratory Enigma.
UAE-based agricultural company Silal Group has signed two agreements with Syria's Ministry of Agriculture on the sidelines of the Damascus Food Expo 2026, held at the Damascus Fairgrounds. The deals are aimed at developing agricultural investment projects in Syria and creating direct export pathways for Syrian produce to the United
Japanese agricultural machinery group Kubota Corporation has made a follow-on investment in UV Boosting, a French startup that develops, manufactures, and supplies ultraviolet irradiation equipment for agricultural crops. The transaction was completed through Kubota's European holding vehicle, Kubota Holdings Europe B.V., headquartered in the Netherlands.
Carlsberg Denmark has announced it will purchase 18,400 tonnes of regeneratively grown grain from Danish farmers' autumn 2026 harvest, up from 15,000 tonnes contracted in 2025. The raw materials will supply the Fredericia brewery for beer production in 2027, representing a further step toward the Carlsberg Group's global target of
Ask most greenhouse growers how they built out their facility and the answer follows a familiar pattern: one company for construction, a different one for climate control, another for irrigation and water management, a specialist for lighting, and a software provider somewhere in the mix. The result is the opposite
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced the final Regenerative Feedstock Rule, a new regulatory framework that creates a voluntary market pathway for American farmers who implement regenerative agriculture practices to access premium pricing within the US biofuel supply chain. The rule was announced on June 25, 2026, the same day
Eurofins Agro Testing has acquired Laboratoř Postoloprty, a leading agro testing laboratory in the Czech Republic with more than 35 years of operating history. The laboratory, which employs 30 people, is accredited by the Czech Accreditation Institute (ČIA) and authorised by the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture