Eastern Daily Press
Norwich firm creating world's first ocean agriculture system
‘Ending world hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture’ is the U...
PR Newswire
ALORA creates salt-tolerant rice plants, rebrands to expand scope, and receives investment from Toyota Ventures and Mistletoe
ALORA, a pioneer in developing ocean agriculture to create a more sustainable future, today unveiled its new company...
ISAAA
ISAAA: Gene-edited Rice May Grow in the Ocean
A Canadian startup Alora used CRISPR technology to produce salt-tolerant rice that will allow the crop to grow in the...
Seed World
SeedWorld: Companies to Watch: From the Start-Up Arena at World Agri-Tech
Here are some of the World Agri-Tech start-ups that caught our eye. In addition to an extensive line-up of presentati...
AgFunder News
AgFunder News: ALORA reactivates dormant genes to unlock ‘best performing salt-tolerant rice plant in the world’
Rice is a staple crop for more than half the world’s population. It’s also highly sensitive to soil salinity, a growi...
FreeThink
FreeThink: "These farmers want to salt the earth — and grow crops in it"
As salt encroaches on productive agricultural land, a handful of startups are finding ways to make crops grow in seaw...
ThriveGlobal
ThriveGlobal: "Social Impact Heros Helping Our Planet: Why & How Luke Young of Agrisea Is Helping To Change Our World"
Luke Young is the CEO and co-founder of Agrisea — an ocean agriculture company that works to solve world hunger by de...
Authority Magazine
AuthorityMagazine: "Social Impact Heros Helping Our Planet: Why & How Luke Young of Agrisea Is Helping To Change Our World"
‘Trust your own vision — experience doesn’t mean they have a better vision, just better methods to get there. If you ...
FeNews
FeNews: "Durham University announces new £500,000 Hazan Venture Lab, developing entrepreneurs to help solve key problems for business and society"
Durham University (@durham_uni) has today announced the opening of a brand-new state-of-the-art facility, designed to...
Waterloo Innovation Summit
Agrisea @ Waterloo Innovation Summit 2020
On the 30th November 2020 we were invited to present at the Waterloo Innovation Summit. As a member of Velocity Incubato
Forbes
Forbes: "Five Ways The Biden-Harris Victory Could Mean A Global Ocean Renaissance"
The outcome of the U.S. Presidential Election has huge significance for the the health of the planet, including one o...
IndieBio DemoDay
Agrisea - IndieBio Demo Day 9
Check it out Luke Young our CEO at IndieBio Demo Day 9 Feb 6th, 2020 at Herbst Theater San Francisco, California........
Forbes
Forbes: "You May Find Salt-Tolerant Rice Growing In The Ocean By 2021"
Growing rice in the ocean sounds a little whacky, but ocean agriculture is an emerging form of food production that c...
The Spoon
The Spoon: "Agrisea is Developing Ocean Farms to Grow Rice using Saltwater"
Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. However, only 2.5 percent of that is fresh water, and...
Wired UK
Wired:"The race is on to grow crops in seawater and feed millions"
With the quality of arable land declining and seawater encroaching on fertile cropland, researchers are trying to fin...
Forbes
Forbes: "Ocean Crops: Is This The Next Frontier For Agriculture?"
The food and agriculture industry is undergoing a radical transformation around the world. Covid-19 has accelerated d...
E27
E27: "Hunger for no hunger: How Agrisea grows rice in the ocean to address food scarcity"
Agrisea was initially built to solve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2, No Hunger. In 2018, when we started our p...
GreenQueen
GreenQueen: "Agrisea Grows Rice In Ocean Farms To Fight Food Insecurity & Have Just Launched In Asia"
California-based Agrisea is focused on developing oceanic salt-tolerant crops in order to fight hunger and improve th...
riceToday
riceToday: "A new wave of rice farming"
For plant geneticist Luke Young and biologist Rory Hornby, the solution to the world’s food security is an audacious con