AgrotechSpeakers at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London pointed to shared resilience finance, leaner agtech funding, products that fit farm systems and better risk intelligence as the next openings for agricultural innovation.
CropsExecutives from IKEA, Royal Canin and Yara told a forum in Beijing that regenerative agriculture has proved itself in pilots, but no one has settled who carries the cost and risk of scaling it up.
The framework, signed at UNGA81, moves the two lenders from project-by-project deals to joint investment in the first mile of food systems.
Advance payments under the Areas of Natural Constraints scheme accounted for €179 million of the week's total from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, reaching more than 85,000 farmers.
Under Bangladesh Bank's revolving scheme, farmers and agribusinesses in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions can borrow at no more than 7 percent for four stages of the supply chain, from production and storage to export.
Fresh-produce platform ProducePay has raised $140 million in equity and financing capacity and is moving outside investors into its grower-advance business so it can build a data and technology service on top, with CEO Patrick McCullough expecting profitability by the end of the year.
The Farm Service Agency is turning its Application Fast Track pilot for low-risk borrowers into a permanent programme, simplifying collateral reviews on direct loans, giving Preferred Lenders more authority to verify eligibility on guaranteed loans, and moving guaranteed-loan applications online.
Australian platform IIF, which lets ordinary people put money into a farmer’s cows, beehives or acres of canola and share the season’s return, is expanding across Canada after a funding round joined by its first Canadian investor, Verdex Capital.
AgribusinessOn 10 March 2026 the World Bank approved a $215.9 million (about CFAF 118.7 billion) project for Burkina Faso's agriculture, aimed at productivity, processing and market access for rice and maize in four of the country's seventeen regions.
