That the world’s bee population is in crisis is no secret. Scientists, conservationists and agriculturalists have been scrambling for a solution to a situation that could be catastrophic for humans who rely on these stripy natural pollinators and their winged cohorts to propagate much of the food that we eat.  Israeli company Edete says it […]

This week the Israel Pavilion Expo2020 is highlighting the country's latest tech innovations in agriculture, food, and climate change.

Pistachios were the subject of Edete’s first pilot of its artificial wind pollination program. The company conducted the pilot in California.

The competition is held for the second year in a row to increase exposure to women-led technological ventures in agrifood.

Founded in 2014, Prospera is an award-winning startup that develops computer vision tech to monitor and predict plant health and development.

CropX will partner with NASA's Food Security and Agriculture Program, NASA Harvest, to support sustainable agriculture and farmer productivity.

SeeTree's agtech solution delivers actionable insights to farmers to better manage and optimize the health of their orchard trees.

Israel-founded startup Infarm says it wants to build the largest urban vertical farming network in the world.

Discussions to team up on agritech projects began before Israel and the UAE announced a US-brokered normalization pact last week.

Israeli agriculture startup SupPlant, a developer of autonomous irrigation based on IoT, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with US-based, Israeli-founded weather intelligence platform ClimaCell, the companies announced this week. Under the agreement, ClimaCell’s weather intelligence will be implemented in SupPlant’s solutions to supply meaningful irrigation insights for farmers. Combining the tech of both firms […]

The US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) will support 22 research projects.

The investment in the planning and establishment of the center will be around $5 million.

Israeli compostable flexible packaging company TIPA Corp was named to global network Forward Fooding’s Food Tech 500, a definitive list of global entrepreneurial talent at the intersection between food, technology, and sustainability in 2019. TIPA came in second place behind US agritech firm AeroFarms. Other Israeli companies that made the top 100 include lab-grown meat […]

The Kitchen is Israel's first and, currently, only technology incubator focused on food and beverages and is a seed investor in related startups.

The group is made up of Finistere Ventures, Israeli venture investor OurCrowd, Tnuva, Israel’s largest food manufacturer, and Tempo Beverages.