This was the program of Farm & Food 2019. The lectures and discussions focused amongst other things on the use of current technologies for the AgriFood system of the future.
26. June 2019
Germany, which ranked fourth for agri-foodtech investment in 2018, pulling in $109 million across 21 deals, according to AgFunder and F&A Next’s recent report, is better known for its food tech successes than agtech — restaurant delivery group DeliveryHero and meal kit leader HelloFresh both listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange at multi-billion dollar valuations. But a deal last week — $100 million in funding for vertical farming group infarm — brought Germany’s agtech industry into focus. And while agriculture is still far off making the economical contribution that Germany’s well known industrial sectors do, the country still has a not insignificant 16 million hectares (39 million acres) of farmland employing 1.4% of the workforce, around 700,000 people.
03. January 2021
On December 16, the European Commission published the "European Union agricultural outlook for 2020-30", in which it sets out various future scenarios for agriculture. This article summarizes the highlights of the forecasts for the coming years and provides an overview of the trends that have emerged, particularly in the last year.
