agriculture

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago.

Source: nationalgeographic.org

Report: Agricultural Startups Face Fallow Funding Field
Report: Agricultural Startups Face Fallow Funding Field
May 25, 2023  |  Startups

The world’s farming startups are reportedly facing problems both high-tech and low-tech. As The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (May 25), these companies — some...

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 Visa Builds Programmable Finance Pilot for Brazilian Farmers Using CBDC 
 Visa Builds Programmable Finance Pilot for Brazilian Farmers Using CBDC 
May 09, 2023  |  CBDC

The way money moves is increasingly digital — and soon, it may even be programmable. It’s one of the proof points coming out of a...

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GrubMarket Launches Payment Platform for Food Wholesalers and Distributors
GrubMarket Launches Payment Platform for Food Wholesalers and Distributors
April 26, 2023  |  B2B Payments

GrubMarket has launched a payment platform designed for food wholesalers and distributors. The new GrubPay platform enables GrubMarket’s customers to directly accept and manage payments...

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Visa and Tingo Debut Super App for Africa’s Farmers
Visa and Tingo Debut Super App for Africa’s Farmers
February 14, 2023  |  Financial Inclusion

Nigerian Agri-FinTech company Tingo has teamed with Visa to launch digital payment offerings in Africa. The partnership, announced in a Tuesday (Feb. 14) news release,...

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How Farmers Use Big Data Networks to Keep Food Prices Lower
How Farmers Use Big Data Networks to Keep Food Prices Lower
January 06, 2023  |  Connected Economy

Supply chain shocks dominate the headlines — and nowhere is the impact of disruption and inflation more apparent than in food prices. Indeed, food prices...

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FoodTech Investments Help Streamline Africa’s Agriculture Trade, Connect Fragmented Supply Chains
FoodTech Investments Help Streamline Africa’s Agriculture Trade, Connect Fragmented Supply Chains
October 09, 2022  |  Supply Chain

Africa’s startup ecosystem raised nearly $5 billion in venture capital (VC) funding last year, twice as much as in 2020. For Zekarias Amsalu, founder and...

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Digital Marketplaces Tackle 3,000 Years of Agribusiness Inertia
Digital Marketplaces Tackle 3,000 Years of Agribusiness Inertia
August 25, 2022  |  B2B Payments

For more than 3,000 years, the agriculture industry has been doing business manually. It started with stone tablets and still clings to last millennium’s paper...

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Spiking Food Prices, Fertilizer Shortages Put Multinational Businesses at Risk
August 11, 2022  |  Economy

Rising global food prices, exacerbated by grain and fertilizer shortages produced by the war in Ukraine, are not only hurting households, but posing risks for...

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Funding Circle, Farm Bureau Bank Partner to Offer Credit to Underserved SMBs
Funding Circle, Farm Bureau Bank Partner to Offer Credit to Underserved SMBs
August 11, 2022  |  SMBs

Online small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending platform Funding Circle and Farm Bureau Bank have announced a partnership that they say will help underserved owners...

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