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Meat giant JBS has partnered with Danantara Investment Management, an arm of Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund, to establish a new joint venture that will manage JBS’ operations in Australia and New Zealand.

ADM has announced a series of investments across four US oilseed crush facilities.

Oxford-based agricultural biotechnology company Moa Technology has raised £22.2 million in a Series C financing round to advance its pipeline of herbicide technologies.

General Mills, ADM and Walmart have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate regenerative agriculture across 40,000 acres of wheat-growing land in the US Midwest.

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.

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

McCain Foods has launched a new grower pilot programme with agricultural intelligence company Ceres AI.

The global F&B industry is preparing for major supply chain disruption as meteorologists warn that the strengthening El Niño weather pattern is likely to intensify extreme weather across key agricultural regions. FoodBev's Leah Smith reports.

Crop design company NuCicer has announced the launch of Nuchi, a new variety of high-protein chickpeas designed for clean-label food formulation.

The European Commission has published its new Protein Action Plan alongside a Livestock Strategy, aiming to boost the resilience of Europe’s agri-food sector and address market challenges.

Jim Mellon, investor and executive chairman of Agronomics, explores how precision fermentation, cell cultivation and gene-editing could help strengthen food security and build a more resilient production system.

The US has declined to renew the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in its current form, setting the stage for further negotiations with Canada and Mexico over the future of the North American trade pact.