AgriFood Signals: Corteva & Inari settle, Starbucks scales back green goals, countries rethink climate reporting

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇺🇸 ArkeaBio raises $15m for livestock methane tech, cuts headcount AgFunderNews 🇨🇭 Cotierra raises $3M to scale decentralised biochar across tropical agriculture Tech.eu 🇺🇾 OrderEAT raises $2M to expand school cafeteria platform Latamlist 🇺🇸 DARO raises $2.5 million to scale disease surveillance across the U.S. swine industry Daro 🇧🇪 Those Vegan Cowboys lands €1.2 million backing for cow-free sports nutrition Protein Production Technology 🇨🇭 FOOD FOUNDERS Studio secures new funding to build its next two foodtech ventures AgFunderNews M&A, IPOs & partnerships 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Generate Capital sells biogas assets to Vanguard Renewables, Pinta Energy Biomass Magazine 🇺🇸 FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing AgFunderNews 🇮🇪 🇯🇵 Hatch Blue: partners with UMITO on Japan aquatech initiative Salmon Business 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 Plantik and Hudson River Biotechnology team up to de-risk heat-tolerant strawberries AgFunderNews 🇺🇸 Viome acquires Sōlaria Biō to launch clinically validated consumer synbiotics and medical foods Business Wire 🇩🇪 Greenforce acquires Neggst’s plant-based egg tech ahead of LIVEKINDLY merger Dealroom People moves 🇺🇸 Cheerios maker General Mills names company veteran as CEO Food Dive 🇺🇸 Sidnee Rose Hill joins Food System 6 as Director of Programs LinkedIn Other news 🇺🇸 Corteva, Inari settle US dispute over seed patents during trial Reuters 🇳🇱 GRI to launch new sustainability reporting standard for food and beverage companies ESG News 🇺🇸 Starbucks retreats from green goals amid $2bn cost drive FT 🇨🇴 Colombia moves to revoke carbon market rules issued under former president Petro Carbon Herald 🇫🇷 Danone and Michelin’s €20m fermentation scale-up site opens to outside projects in France Vegconomist 🇺🇸 Farmers, others sue USDA over REAP solar restrictions, funding losses DTN Progressive Farmer 🇺🇸 Believer Meats creditors weigh bid for US plant after UPSIDE Foods exit AgFunderNews 🇬🇧 UK’s FCA drops plans for mandatory IFRS-based climate reporting ESG Today