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Decarbonizing Cement, Concrete, & Steel • 6/10/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

She has been involved in oil, gas and mining projects and businesses in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. She is also Founder and President of Technica Communications, where she handles marketing, social media, content production and public relations for cleantech and biotech startups.

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BREAKING: Entocycle lands $5m Series A from Climentum, Lowercarbon Capital to roll-out precision ag tech for insect farms

AFN Sustainable Protein

Its focus markets will include Europe and Eastern and Southern Africa. If you underfeed the insects, what you end up with are lots of very small insects and that’s not good as a final product to the customer,” Whitaker says. Entocycle is now gearing to commercialize and supply its products.

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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

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Demand for meat is growing faster in Asia, especially China, than anywhere else on the planet — and satiating the continent’s demand has global implications,” the Impossible Foods spokesperson told us. A virus endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. China is absolutely on our radar. Snapshot: What is African Swine Fever?

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Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

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Quarsingh talked to AFN about her goal and journey to putting Africa on the map for cellular seafood. Marica Quarsingh: I started out in corporate South Africa, working in commercial roles, leading media agencies and consulting. The bio-economy in South Africa has a strong synthetic-bio focus.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

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He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Six years later, he is CEO of Clara Foods, a biotech food company that uses fermentation to create egg proteins without involving chickens.