Descriptive: What current AgTech innovations are being successfully implemented? How are successful AgTech innovations currently being implemented? Explanatory: What are the key characteristics of successful AgTech innovations? What are the best ways to market AgTech innovations? Evaluative: How can breakthrough technologies make farming more efficient? Can private sector innovations be effective in causing large-scale impacts? […]
Agriculture tech: next big opportunity in Southeast Asia?
by Nadine Freischlad Agriculture has become – pardon the pun – a lucrative field for technology companies. A total of US$2.36 billion was invested into the global agriculture tech – or agtech – businesses in 2014, which put in on par with sectors like fintech, and ahead of clean tech, according to a recent report by […]
Finding Scale
Gearing up for the concentration draft deadline, I have been thinking a lot about scale. A concentration is supposed to be larger than a situated project, but smaller than a broad environmental theme. Finding the perfect balance and focus has been difficult. I have narrowed down to the broad theme of agtech, but just agtech […]
AgTech Is The New Queen Of Green | TechCrunch
by Rob Leclerc and Melissa Tilney Before Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation in late 2013 for nearly $1 billion, few investors gave much thought to technological innovation in our agriculture system. What a difference a year can make. In what can be described as the Netscape moment for agriculture technology, the sector had a breakout year […]
Concentration Brainstorm
Figuring out what I want to focus on for my next three years of study in ENVS has been a longer, more difficult process than I had imagined. There are just so many interesting topics under the general field of Environmental Studies that it has been an adventure just to know where to start. Sorting through […]