“Food loss and waste is a major challenge of our time,” said FAO director-general QU Dongyu, urging stronger partnerships, more public and private investment in training for smallholder farmers, technology and innovation to step up the fight against food loss and waste as “our planet is a small ship in the universe”

Start-up company Crover has introduced the world-first agricultural technology, designed to reduce waste and save millions of tonnes of grain stock each year

Vertical farming company Infarm has raised US$170mn investment in the first close of a Series C funding round, which is expected to reach US$200mn

To help farmers further maximise profit potential through data-driven seed recommendations, agriculture company Syngenta and NK Seeds have launched the Cropwise Seed Selector

Jasmijn Lip, CODEMA’s newest project manager, discusses how the company simultaneously realises horticultural solutions on four continents