350 Costa Rican farmers join regenerative agriculture network
Osa Conservation's AmistOsa network partners with farmers in southern Costa Rica on practices that boost productivity while sequestering carbon, backed by Walmart Foundation funding.
Read story →World Bank commits $120M to sustainable agriculture in Costa Rica
The loan supports Costa Rica's Public Policy for the Agricultural Sector 2023–2032, including payments for carbon capture in coffee, livestock, and sugarcane chains.
Read story →Aquiares Estate: a carbon-neutral coffee farm in Turrialba
The 600-hectare Rainforest Alliance Certified farm has sequestered more carbon than it emits since 2016 — a regenerative model spanning three generations of workers.
Read story →Brazil's state research agency is growing chicken meat from cells — and the world's top beef exporter says it's just the beginning
Embrapa has produced prototype cultivated chicken fillets at labs in Concórdia and Brasília. A finished technology package is targeted for mid-2027 — built entirely in-house, in a country that already set regulatory rules for cultivated meat back in 2023.
Brazil is the world's largest beef exporter — a country built, in large part, on cattle. So when its own federal research agency starts growing meat in a dish, without a single animal slaughtered, it's a signal that the idea has moved well past the experimental fringe.
Researcher Luciano Paulino da Silva, who coordinates the experiments at Embrapa's Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, expects the work to be ready as a licensable technology package by mid-2027 — building on a regulatory framework Brazil's ANVISA published back in 2023.
Continue reading →"Até meados do ano que vem, vai estar na vitrine como um ativo tecnológico Embrapa." — By around the middle of next year, it will be on display as an Embrapa technological asset.
— Luciano Paulino da Silva, researcher, Embrapa LNANOAlso this week: Enthos scales Colombia's insect-protein plant
S2G Investments and Ocean 14 Capital backed a 200-ton-per-day Black Soldier Fly facility aimed at replacing fishmeal in aquaculture feed.
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View all stories →Brazil's state research agency Embrapa is growing real chicken meat from cells — without a single animal slaughtered
Embrapa has produced prototype cultivated chicken fillets at labs in Concórdia and Brasília, with a finished technology package targeted for mid-2027. Brazil already set regulatory rules for cultivated meat back in 2023.
Insect ProteinEnthos raises VC funding to build one of Latin America's largest insect-protein plants in Colombia
S2G Investments and Ocean 14 Capital backed Enthos, which converts organic waste into food-grade protein and oil using Black Soldier Fly larvae — a 200-ton-per-day facility aimed at the aquaculture and livestock feed market.
RegenerativeCosta Rica's farmers are getting paid to restore soil — and the model is scaling across the region
Osa Conservation's AmistOsa network is partnering with 350 farmers on regenerative practices that boost productivity while sequestering carbon, backed by Walmart Foundation funding and two decades of conservation work in southern Costa Rica.
RegenerativeCosta Rica and the World Bank commit $120M to sustainable agriculture financing
The new loan supports Costa Rica's Public Policy for the Agricultural Sector 2023–2032, including a track that pays farmers for carbon capture in coffee, livestock, and sugarcane production chains.
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