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Vertical farming company, GoodLeaf Farms, plans to open a climate-controlled indoor farm in the Montréal suburb of Longueuil by the middle of 2023.

PepsiCo has opened its first UK oat testing lab, in partnership with NIAB, to help Quaker Oats growers to reduce emissions and maximise yield.

Food processing and commodities trading corporation ADM, and PepsiCo have announced a seven and a half year commercial agreement to collaborate and expand regenerative agriculture across their shared north American supply chains.

AAK has partnered with Nestlé and palm oil corporation Musim Mas to address deforestation outside of palm oil concession areas in Aceh, Indonesia. 

Fresh producer supplier JEPCO has released its own-label Living Lettuce that has been grown hydroponically into Co-op stores across the UK.

Arla Foods has announced plans to build a new commercial dairy farm in northern Nigeria, in an effort to support local milk production in the country.  

Work has begun on a new £6m facility at Branston's site in Lincolnshire, that will be used to extract high-grade protein from potatoes. 

Mondelēz International and Olam Food Ingredients have partnered to create what they claim will be the world’s largest sustainable commercial cocoa farm.

Oishii, a vertical farming startup based in New Jersey, has raised $50 million during a Series A funding round led by Sparx Group's Mirai Creation Fund II. 

US agribusiness Bunge has launched a new programme to monitor soybean crops from its indirect supply chain in the Brazillian Cerrado region.

US-based aqua-tech company NaturalShrimp has signed a letter of intent to acquire the aquaculture assets of Hydrenesis Aquaculture.

Agtech start-up Pairwise has secured $90m in a Series B funding round, as it looks to develop and bring genetically enhanced produce to North America.