SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plenty Unlimited Inc., an indoor, vertical farming technology company that can grow clean produce year-round, anywhere in the world, today announced it has secured $400 million in a Series E financing round, the largest investment to date for an indoor farming company. The round, led by new investors One Madison Group […]
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Prices have gone up at their fastest rate in nearly 30 years – but there is worse to come, experts have warned. Soaring food costs and the energy bill crisis drove inflation to 5.4% in the 12 months to December, up from 5.1% the month before, in another blow to struggling families. The last time […]
Farmers in the developing world say they are curtailing production, which means global hunger could worsen. From South America’s avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia’s plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world, making it much costlier to cultivate and forcing many to cut […]
So far, China has been able to keep up with consumer demand. That may be about to change as omicron moves across the country. From the way people have worried about it, you might think that the world’s value chains have been in turmoil for much of the past two years. Searches for the term “supply chain” […]
Ya sea en tiempos de crisis o de recuperación, estas son lecciones prácticas para lanzar y hacer crecer una empresa. El trabajo de periodista tiene sus ventajas. Tenemos un asiento de primera fila para ver a las personas más influyentes (a veces, del planeta). Nos pagan por aprender y compartir las mejores lecciones con nuestros […]
Luis Fernando Hidalgo se instaló en Miami para liderar la entrada al mercado mexicano de la plataforma de e-commerce especializada en el agro. El próximo paso: llegar a Serie A, a finales de este año, para levantar US$ 25 millones. En 2018, Ecuador fue elegido como laboratorio para la primera plataforma de e-commerce especializada en […]