Tag: flux

UN applies agricultural tech innovation to improve drought resilience for farmers

Today is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought celebrations, and the FAO's Graziano da Silva said:  "It is quite impossible to avoid a drought from happening, but we can avoid a drought turning into famine or displacement of people."

Evogene takes gene science to cannabis with AI platform and years of experience

Cannabis is one of those new markets where everyone and his brother is racing in to make a quick...

Join the UN’s annual party for the plants

Keeping plant products and global trade in plants safe - Annual meeting: Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (International Plant Protection...

Microsoft spin-off offers USD$4 million to women entrepreneurs

Calling all women in the Start-up Nation! M12, Microsoft's corporate venture fund, announces a new competition for female-led technology...

World’s best eatery NOMA reborn as an urban farm

Celebrity chef and foraging superstar René Redzepi told the New York Times on Monday that he is closing his Copenhagen restaurant...

Veggies travel to Burning Man on a souped-up Airstream!

A crew of eco-minded entrepreneurs plan to mash-up modern vertical farming with decades-old hippie culture by fitting out an...

CropX nails precision agriculture with $9 million investment

In the same space as the American agtech company flux, built on Israeli R&D to help people grow food in...

Watch ISIS militants take over and burn marijuana fields in Syria

Maybe we'd have a little more tolerance and understanding in this world if ISIS just smoked some of the...