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📌 This week: Is there light at the end of the tunnel for cultivated meat, or is one of agrifoodtech’s biggest moonshots destined for the dustbin of history before it’s even out of the starting blocks? Niyati Gupta, Patricia Bubner, PhD, Steven Finn, Lou Cooperhouse, Didier Toubia, Ido Savir et al weigh in. 🔬 Liberation Bioindustries has paused construction at its US biomanufacturing facility as it seeks fresh capital to get over the finish line. It “should not be interpreted as a loss of confidence in Liberation Bio or the Richmond facility,” says fractional CTO Mark Warner. 🌿 Monetizing ecology: Patagonia exec forms Landseed co-founder Greg Curtis says the new company will make the full value of nature “visible, verifiable and financially useful”. 💨 Fueling the bioeconomy: Solarferm makes sugar from gas​. Founder Gabriel James says: "We want to make the cheapest, cleanest sugar on the planet". 🚰 Water management: Years of drought and aquifer depletion have made scarcity the norm. We spoke to Michael Panteli whose business Engage Crop Solutions Ltd has developed Aqualatus – “multi-functional water management technology they claim simultaneously improves soil infiltration, distribution, retention, and oxygenation. 🪰 GOTERRA's voluntary administration has prompted a flurry of post-mortems that are contributing to a “contagion” that is destroying confidence in the whole sector, claims founder Olympia Yarger. 📌 Plus Industry news and analysis, the agrifoodtech stories you missed last week, and what Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Jennifer Marston and Elaine Watson have been reading... Dig deeper ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ejpU5zfY? #agtech #foodtech #agrifoodtech #deeptech #healthtech #climatetech