15 April 2019
With the need to feed the world’s population of 9.8 billion people by 2050, AgritechNZ is looking at ways New Zealand can scale up its food production to meet the growing global demand.
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21 February 2019
Melbourne – Almost 100 Kiwi agritech specialists, entrepreneurs, agribusiness leaders and support agencies have joined 1000 delegates at the international EvokeAg food & farm futures conference in Melbourne this week.
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30 January 2019
New Zealand is going to take ownership of a new global agritech initiative, AgritechNZ chief executive Peter Wren-Hilton says.
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11 January 2019
Over the past 6 months, Agritech New Zealand has been building a series of building blocks and initiatives aimed at growing the country’s agritech sector. With its rapidly growing membership, we are now in a position to launch these opportunities through 2019.
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03 December 2018
On Friday, I joined 20 other NZ agritech stakeholders take part in a five hour NZ agritech story workshop.
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23 October 2018
Farm2050, the global collective of leading agritech venture funds and corporate agribusinesses, selected New Zealand as its first country partner...
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Important Notice: Entries close at 5pm on Monday 4th March 2019. That's next Monday! I’ve just returned from the evokeAG conference in Melbourne, Australia where New Zealand start-up, CertusBio, picked up the prize as best company in the Investment Ready Pitch Tent competition
February 23, 2019
Melbourne – Almost 100 Kiwi agritech specialists, entrepreneurs, agribusiness leaders and support agencies have joined 1000 delegates at the international EvokeAg food & farm futures conference in Melbourne this week. Making up almost 10 percent of the attendees at this globally
February 21, 2019
In April, Callaghan Innovation launches Scale-Up New Zealand, a free online platform with verified information on Aotearoa New Zealand’s vibrant innovation ecosystem. Created from a model that is hugely successful overseas, Scale-Up New Zealand will make it faster and easier for ambitious bus
February 19, 2019
Kia ora, Welcome to the first Agritech New Zealand newsletter of 2019 and what an unbelievable start to the year it has been. I’ll try to summarise where we are at and where we are heading, because it’s going to be a blockbuster 12 months! The New Zealand Agritech Story At the en
February 13, 2019
Updated 17 February: With less than 24 hours to go, almost 90 kiwis have now registered to attend the evokeAG conference. This is the largest single delegation of kiwi agritech delegates headed offshore for a major conference. In less than two weeks, 60+ representatives from New Zealand’s agri
February 3, 2019
Tauranga – New Zealand is going to take ownership of a new global agritech initiative, AgritechNZ chief executive Peter Wren-Hilton says. Wren-Hilton has just returned from the US where he met a number of key AgritechNZ partners in Farm2050 which was set up to solve the global food c
January 30, 2019
I have just returned from the US where I spent valuable time with a number of Agritech New Zealand’s key partners in Farm2050. The major purpose of the visit was to discuss our preparation for the 3-year initiative based on identifying disruptive technologies around nutrients. For context, fe
January 30, 2019
24 hours ago, the UK Parliament rejected Theresa May’s Brexit ‘deal’ with the European Union. A few hours later, I sat down with Laura Clarke, the British High CommissionertoNew Zealand and her team at the British Consulate in Auckland. The business of business goes on. Whatever the final
January 17, 2019
Over the past 6 months, Agritech New Zealand has been driving a series of domestic & offshore initiatives aimed at growing the country’s agritech sector. With its rapidly growing membership, we are now in a position to launch these opportunities through 2019. We are not doing this alone.
January 11, 2019