RisingFoodStars Reveals AgriFoodTech Scaleups to Confront EU’s Rising Food Process and Climate Crisis

The selected scaleups are developing innovative solutions in sustainable agriculture, alternative proteins, and eco-friendly packaging to tackle food inflation and climate threats in the EU. So far, the programme’s alumni have raised over €870M and proven their ability to expand into new markets. Leuven, June 18, 2025 – EIT Food RisingFoodStars, Europe’s premier scale-up programme … Read more

FA Bio closes ground breaking dual-action biopesticide project for wheat, advancing sustainable farming solutions

FA Bio, a pioneer in microbial solutions for regenerative agriculture, proudly announces the successful completion of its Novel Dual-Action Biopesticide for wheat project, aimed at transforming crop protection for UK wheat farmers. The project, funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and UKRI’s Transforming Food Production Challenge under the Farming Innovation … Read more

FA Bio licenses two microbes to IFF’s Crop Biologicals division to advance microbial solutions for crop health

FA Bio, a leader in the discovery of sustainable agricultural products, has extended a license agreement on two microbials to IFF’s Crop Biologicals business.

FA Bio appoint Sophie Pickering and Dr Jonathan Tudor as Directors

As part of its next phase of growth, FA Bio appoint two new Directors from leading UK and European impact investors FA Bio, the revolutionary agriculture microbial discovery and development company, has appointed Sophie Pickering, Investment Manager at Pymwymic, and Dr Jonathan Tudor, Investment Partner at Clean Growth Fund, as Directors. Having secured a £5.3 … Read more

FA Bio awarded funding to assess effects of drought stress on the global food crop maize

BBSRC awards grant funding to FA Bio for its project to develop a protocol to grow maize plants under drought stress, in collaboration with CHAP. FA Bio, the revolutionary agriculture microbial discovery and development company, is awarded grant funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to develop a proof-of-concept imaging-phenotyping assay to … Read more