From Bees to Blended Finance: Agri‐Food is Adapting Fast

Smart tools, regen capital, and climate partnerships gain momentum amid mounting global strain

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Team Further
June 12, 2025

Welcome to Further Insights, 3rd edition!

From trade disruptions to tech-enabled bees, this week’s stories reveal an industry in flux, and in motion. While tariffs and deforestation dominate global headlines, capital and innovation are still flowing toward solutions that deliver resilience, regeneration, and returns.

We have also just launched the inaugural Further Summit, running from Nov 3-4 in Singapore, during the Singapore Agri-Food Week (SIAW) - one more compelling reason to be in Singapore during that time!

The Further Summit is for Startups & Scaleups seeking capital, Investors & Financiers seeking deals, and for Large buyers seeking innovative suppliers. The event is focused on pre-scheduled 1-to-1 meetings to accelerate deals and compress months of deal flow into just two days.

Enjoy the read and hope to see you before the summit,

Global food prices dip in May due to cereal, sugar & oil

FAO index falls 0.8%, easing inflation pressure

S&P Global | Commodities | Food Security | FAO

China, EU roll out tech-forward food‑production roadmaps

Each maps out agri-food strategies with a cleantech focus

Cleantech | China | EU | Food Security

Rockefeller & PepsiCo back TransCap to scale regen-ag finance

Initiative designs blended capital platform for regen ag

AgFunder | Regen Ag | Impact Investing | Finance

India expecting two years of sugar surplus

Record yields could enable export surge in 2025/26, prices lower

Reuters | Supply | Sugar | India

Beewise raises $50M Series D to scale robotic BeeHome

Funding boosts AI-driven hive expansion globally

AgriTech Tomorrow | Agtech | Robotics

⏰ Other News

Tariffs are also a key threat to global food-system resilience

Trade duties may spike input and commodity prices and overshadow recent drops

The Economist | Tariffs | Food Security | Supply Chain

Corporate VC becomes a strategic growth lever for startups, and Food & Ag should leverage

CVC offers founders market access plus capital

Entrepreneur | CVC | Fundraising

Nestlé and OFI join forces on large-scale cocoa agroforestry

25K farmers, 2.8M trees, 1.5M t CO₂ cut in climate project

FoodBev Media | Agroforestry | Deforestation | Sustainable Cocoa

Grow Asia Joint Council meeting charts a decade of food-system impact

Leaders convened to scale school meals and regen ag in ASEAN

Grow Asia | mallholders | Climate Action | Sustainable Agriculture

Asian producers eye gap from Brazil poultry bans

Thailand steps up amid imports cut by China, EU, Japan

Asian Agribiz | Trade | Poultry | Brazil |

Upcycled retail food waste trends gain momentum

Retailers turning surplus into products and profits

Forward Fooding | Upcycling | Food Waste | Circularity

Forest fires drove record tropical forest loss in 2024

6.7 M ha lost—fires, industrial expansion top drivers

World Resources Institute | Deforestation | Land Use |

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