Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Jul 3, 2024 | winchesteragservice.com | Louisa Burwood-Taylor |John Kempf

The regenerative agriculture movement has changed a lot since I first heard the phrase in 2014. I’m pretty sure Paul McMahon, managing partner of fund manager SLM Partners, was the first person to educate me about the practice of farming to not just sustain the land but to improve it. He probably sent me regen ag pioneer Allan Savory’s famous TED talk, which sent me trotting along to the Savory Institute’s annual conference in London just over 10 years ago today.

May 28, 2024 | agfundernews.com | Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Disclosure: AgFunderNews parent company AgFunder is an investor in IGS. When David Farquhar joined vertical farming tech provider Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) in 2017, the company was, in his words, little more than “an R&D project with no real business structure.”One Brexit and a global pandemic later, Scotland-based IGS is a $300 million+ business, has farms operating on four continents across hundreds of crop species, and employs over 200 individuals.

May 16, 2024 | agfundernews.com | Jennifer Marston |Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Fashion brands are desperately seeking new, sustainable materials as they come under increasing pressure to produce garments with improved environmental credentials, experts told the audiences of last week’s SynBioBeta conference in San Jose and Rethinking Materials in London this week. “A lot of people don’t realize how much the fashion industry needs new materials,” Jen Keane, founder of Modern Synthesis and a former designer for Adidas, explained on a panel at SynBioBeta.

May 16, 2024 | winchesteragservice.com | Jennifer Marston |Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Fashion brands are desperately seeking new, sustainable materials as they come under increasing pressure to produce garments with improved environmental credentials, experts told the audiences of last week’s SynBioBeta conference in San Jose and Rethinking Materials in London this week. “A lot of people don’t realize how much the fashion industry needs new materials,” Jen Keane, founder of Modern Synthesis and a former designer for Adidas, explained on a panel at SynBioBeta.

Apr 9, 2024 | agfundernews.com | Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Wherever you are in the world, you no doubt experienced extreme weather events in recent months. In fact, nearly half the global population – some 3.6 billion people – is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, from droughts, floods and storms to heat stress and food insecurity. Climate hazards are only expected to worsen and the agriculture industry is particularly at risk of the increasingly inhospitable growing conditions presented by climate change.