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Rize, an agri-tech start-up based in Singapore, has raised $31 million in Series B funding to scale its AI-led sustainable rice farming technology across Southeast Asia.

The JM Smucker Co has appointed Douglas Guilherme as senior vice president of operations and supply chain, effective 29 July.

CPI has joined a €6.3 million Horizon Europe project investigating how engineering biology and AI could help create more sustainable supply chains.

SuanNutra, a Carbyne Equity Partners company, has agreed to acquire a portfolio of natural ingredients businesses from IFF.

Synergy Machinery and Sidel India have appointed Ashish Deshpande as managing director.

Canadian dairy cooperative Agropur has agreed to sell its fine cheese business to Lactalis.

The Coca-Cola Company has confirmed that production at its Fairlife dairy business in the US has been temporarily suspended.

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation has announced that it will suspend operations at the end of this year unless it wins a favourable court ruling, after The Magnum Ice Cream Company allegedly evicted the charity from its offices and cut its funding.

Royal FrieslandCampina has announced plans to reorganise its business structure from January 2027.

Suntory has launched a wetland restoration project with a local organisation in Mashiki Town, Kumamoto, Japan, aiming to improve biodiversity conservation and water replenishment.

Oils and fats company AAK has teamed up with US food-tech start-up Savor, in a two-year collaboration to develop speciality fat solutions for dairy alternative and bakery applications.

Polysense has raised $10.7 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to accelerate the rollout of its AI-powered quality control platform across global food manufacturing operations.