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Los Angeles’s
food and agriculture industry,
in focus.
The companies, capital and talent shaping food and agriculture in Los Angeles. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
MEET THE COMPANIESExplore Los Angeles’s food and agriculture leaders
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Company discovery
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No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
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A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
69 of 614 tracked companies have open roles.
133 of 614 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 208 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 57.7% of disclosed capital, while 78.3% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATIONHow Los Angeles food and agriculture has grown
Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
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How Los Angeles food and agriculture has grown
Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Disclosed funding by year
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
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| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $105.03M | 35 | 12 |
| 2017 | $27.74M | 18 | 11 |
| 2018 | $1.6B | 29 | 23 |
| 2019 | $209.81M | 40 | 15 |
| 2020 | $486.97M | 36 | 26 |
| 2021 | $538.44M | 33 | 27 |
| 2022 | $252.21M | 17 | 26 |
| 2023 | $155.18M | 15 | 19 |
| 2024 | $215.11M | 7 | 16 |
| 2025 | $53.4M | 2 | 9 |
Funding concentration
Share of all disclosed company funding.
- Herbalife31.8%
- LIVEKINDLY13.6%
- Sweetgreen12.2%
- Other companies42.3%
Funding by stage
246 recorded rounds since 2016
Investors appearing most often
Recorded participation in food and agriculture company rounds since 2016.
- 01Powerplant Ventures 5 rounds
- 02Y Combinator 5 rounds
- 03Science 5 rounds
- 04AF Ventures 4 rounds
- 05Techstars 3 rounds
- 06Blue Horizon 3 rounds
- 07Jake Kassan 3 rounds
- 08United States Department of Agriculture 3 rounds
- 09Palm Tree Crew 3 rounds
- 010Beyond Next Ventures 3 rounds
Recent recorded rounds
Latest recorded rounds · USDBacked by Main Street Advisors and Great Circle Ventures and others.
Backed by Beyond Next Ventures and Sparks Asset Management.
Backed by .
Largest and notable recorded rounds
Each card is one recorded roundBacked by Fidelity Investments and Evolution VC Partners.
Backed by The Rise Fund and TPG and others.
Backed by Blue Horizon.
Backed by Lone Pine Capital and True Ventures and others.
Backed by Blue Horizon and EQT and others.
Backed by Live Nation and Access Capital and others.
Backed by Science Ventures and Live Nation Entertainment and others.
Backed by SuRo Capital and Science and others.
Backed by AF Ventures and JAZZ Venture Partners and others.
Backed by Founders Fund and Naomi Osaka and others.
THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITYRevenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
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Revenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 3 reporting entities from 5 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Los Angeles market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 3 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Annual account trend
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
Profitability has two perspectives
FY2025 · 3 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbalife ↗1180262 | $5,037.5m | $228.3m | +4.5% | — | — |
| Sweetgreen ↗1477815 | $679.5m | $-134.1m | -19.7% | — | — |
| Barfresh Food Group ↗1487197 | $14.2m | $-2.7m | -19.0% | — | — |
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Coverage, calculations & financial sources
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
Web traffic, app reach and release cadence
How the Los Angeles companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
Busiest websites
13 of the 614 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (2.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 237,453 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbalifeherbalife.com | 1,139,445 | 60 | 80% |
| Sweetgreensweetgreen.com | 847,566 | 59 | 66.9% |
| Liquid I.V.liquid-iv.com | 662,752 | 54 | 74.6% |
| Mendocino Farmsmendocinofarms.com | 536,557 | 49 | 66.8% |
| Fishwifeeatfishwife.com | 418,506 | 45 | 80.5% |
| NeuroGumneurogum.com | 327,247 | 43 | 77.9% |
| Pressedpressed.com | 237,453 | 48 | 75.8% |
| susiecakessusiecakes.com | 126,896 | 47 | 58.4% |
| Real Good Foodsrealgoodfoods.com | 87,118 | 42 | 64.7% |
| Masiendamasienda.com | 76,981 | 48 | 39.4% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
Most-installed apps
23 of these companies (3.7%) publish at least one Android app — 34 apps in all, carrying 14.7M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Mike\'sJersey Mike\'s | 6.7M | 4.8 | Food & Drink |
| Herbalife ShopHerbalife | 4.2M | 4.1 | Business |
| Herbalife LearnHerbalife | 563.1K | 4.5 | Education |
| LearningHerbalife | 531.7K | 3.4 | Health & Fitness |
| sweetgreenSweetgreen | 504.7K | 4.8 | Food & Drink |
| California Pizza Kitchen (CPK)California Pizza Kitchen | 475.3K | 4.6 | Food & Drink |
| The Coffee Bean® RewardsThe Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf | 456.1K | 2.5 | Food & Drink |
| WaBa RewardsWaBa Grill | 367.2K | 4.7 | Food & Drink |
| Menchie\'sMenchie’s | 314K | 3 | Food & Drink |
| Engage - Your ClubHerbalife | 168.1K | 3.6 | Health & Fitness |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
App reach by segment
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2025Q3).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Retailers | 9 | 5.6M | Herbalife Shop 4.2M | |
| Traditional Nutraceuticals | 7 | 5.6M | Herbalife Learn 563.1K | |
| Food & Beverage Products | 6 | 538.7K | The Coffee Bean® Rewards 456.1K | |
| Food Distributors | 3 | 2.7K | Worldwide Produce Checkout 2.4K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
Release cadence by quarter
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 32 of 34 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
INSIDE THE INDUSTRYThe Los Angeles food and agriculture market map
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The Los Angeles food and agriculture market map
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
Where companies are building
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
Internet first brands
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
7 companies hiring · $349.09M disclosed funding
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Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.
THE COMPANIES IN MOTIONWho is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
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Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
The trend: An expected slowdown in discretionary spending isn’t stopping several consumer-facing companies from moving forward with US IPO plans. Jersey Mike’s Subs has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, targeting a valuation of at least $12 billion and proceeds of more than $1 billion, per Bloomberg.
Herbalife acquired the personalized nutrition company Bioniq
Investment firm Consortium Brand Partners, along with Eldridge Industries, Convive Brands and Aurify Brands, have an agreement to acquire the 120-unit casual-dining pizza chain.
Future Group, a York-headquartered marketing group, has acquired PR and Social agency, Alfred.
Barfresh’s entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Arps Dairy.
the brand’s acquisition of Spyce for about $70 million in 2021.
US canned water producer Liquid Death has received investment from venture-capital firm 4th & 1 Ventures.
V2food, an Australia-based producer of plant-based meat, is purchasing U.S. vegan chicken maker Daring Foods
The business incubator, CSI Kick Start, made its first investment in Delicious Nutritious Markets based in Los Angeles in 2014.
previous funding rounds raised $46 million to support Jinx’s brick-and-mortar retail launch and expand its product portfolio.
Full recorded event mix
Top 10 categories among 280 recorded events in the 24-month window.
IPO pipeline
1 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO3 reports
Leadership moves
30 tracked people moves
Departure Previously Chief Development Officer
Appointment Chief Development Officer
Appointment President and COO
Promotion President and Chief Operating Officer
Appointment Chief Financial Officer
Appointment President and Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Co-President
Product launches
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Personal Care
Nutrition
Smoothie
Contract wins
4 recorded customer wins
Customer: wonderFood services
Customer: port of los angelesLogistics
Customer: port of san francisco
Workforce actions
2 companies with reported reductions
10.0% rolescost reduction
45.0% rolescost reduction
Earnings pulse
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 37 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Mergers and acquisitions
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbalife→bioniq | Completed | 2026-04-14 | Not stated in snapshot |
| consortium brand partners→California Pizza Kitchen ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-03 | $300.0M |
| future group→Alfred ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-02 | Not stated in snapshot |
| golden gate capital→California Pizza Kitchen ↗ | 2025-12-17 | $470.0M | |
| Barfresh Food Group→arps dairy | Announced | 2025-11-27 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Sweetgreen→spyce | Completed | 2025-11-06 | $70.0M |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITYThe talent market
4,386 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7,949-posting snapshot covers 90 employers.
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The talent market
4,386 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7,949-posting snapshot covers 90 employers.
Most advertised job titles
175 tracked postings mention remote work.
The seniority mix
1,744 postings specify a level.
Skills employers mention
Top skills across 7,949 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 1,130 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Salary by seniority
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
Companies hiring
Large employers
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Herbalife ↗ | 9,200 |
| Sweetgreen ↗ | 4,877 |
| The Wonderful Company ↗ | 4,596 |
| Wolfgang Puck Catering ↗ | 804 |
| Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds ↗ | 733 |
| FIJI Water ↗ | 540 |
| Fuji Food Products ↗ | 501 |
| Urth Caffe ↗ | 366 |
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELDFounders and leaders
310 founders and chief executives across 225 companies.
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Founders and leaders
310 founders and chief executives across 225 companies.
Roger Lienhard
LIVEKINDLY ↗Founder Blue Horizon International Foundation, LIVEKINDLY Collective, ex-Re Asset Management, Reach Media, Distribution DHG Handelsgesellschaft.
Jonathan Neman
Sweetgreen ↗Meundies, ex-Bain, Georgetown University, 2007
Mike Cessario
Liquid Death ↗Ex-Lots of Agencies. ArtCenter College of Design BFA 2008
Angela Sutherland
Yumi ↗Ex-Director SierraConstellation Partners, Toyota North America, Goldman Sachs. Brown University BA 2006
Kevin Boylan
The Veggie Grill ↗Ex-Founder Standard Capital Group, Drexel Burnham Lambert · ASU BBA 1979
Jeffrey Appelbaum
Salted ↗Limited Partner - Wonder Ventures
Terri Rockovich
Jinx ↗Jinx, ex-Outdoor Voices, ex-Casper, Saint Francis University, 2007
Linda Collins
ZenWTR ↗MyMuse, CORE FOODS, ex-Core Nutrition.
Ali Khademhosseini
Omeat ↗TIBI, ex-Co-Founder Obsidio, Amazon. MIT PhD 2005, University of Toronto BSc 1999, MSc 2001
Luke Anderson
Cann Social Tonics ↗Co-Founder wayOUT, ex- Bain & Company, UP Education Network, Teach for America, Woodland Golf Club . Stanford University 2010, Boston University 2012…
Alissa Miky
Aqua Theon ↗Founder Marine Plant Based, Founder Misaky.Tokyo, OoMee, Nippon Television Network, ex- J21, Liquor Innovation…
Jeffrey Maser
Tinley Beverage ↗Founder Newbury Growth Capital, ex-Founder Becketts Non-Alcoholic Tonics. Western University BA…
Education networks
27 profiles with education records.
Prior employers
4 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
NEWS INTELLIGENCEHow this industry appears in the news
18,847 articles in the measured 12-month window.
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How this industry appears in the news
18,847 articles in the measured 12-month window.
News volume trends
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Los Angeles · articles per complete quarter
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| Quarter | Articles |
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| 2021Q2 | 3,660 |
| 2021Q3 | 3,680 |
| 2021Q4 | 3,317 |
| 2022Q1 | 4,248 |
| 2022Q2 | 3,791 |
| 2022Q3 | 3,489 |
| 2022Q4 | 3,435 |
| 2023Q1 | 3,928 |
| 2023Q2 | 4,202 |
| 2023Q3 | 4,072 |
| 2023Q4 | 4,070 |
| 2024Q1 | 5,595 |
| 2024Q2 | 4,863 |
| 2024Q3 | 4,985 |
| 2024Q4 | 4,980 |
| 2025Q1 | 11,558 |
| 2025Q2 | 4,126 |
| 2025Q3 | 5,638 |
| 2025Q4 | 4,000 |
| 2026Q1 | 5,278 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
Tone of coverage over time
Most-covered companies
Company share of voice
359 recorded company events across 42 companies; percentages use that event total.
Leading coverage topics
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Los Angeles · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Topics gaining and losing attention
United States comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| shrimp aquaculture | 1,469 | 980 | 50% |
| land-frozen seafood | 1,378 | 790 | 74% |
| shrimp harvest | 1,132 | 643 | 76% |
| shrimp | 1,126 | 686 | 64% |
| college playoffs | 1,029 | 666 | 55% |
| ceo change | 1,029 | 690 | 49% |
| crab availability | 963 | 648 | 49% |
| fresh shellfish | 908 | 583 | 56% |
| tuna steak | 902 | 539 | 67% |
| flash-frozen seafood | 894 | 483 | 85% |
| f1 world championship | 1,972 | 3,224 | -39% |
| f1 championship | 1,863 | 2,930 | -36% |
| poultry health | 804 | 2,053 | -61% |
| wildlife disease monitoring | 377 | 1,952 | -81% |
| h5n1 avian influenza | 356 | 1,818 | -80% |
Event and signal lenses
United States comparison coverage
Regulatory Risk
418,778 classified articlesfood rescue donations, meal distribution funding, emergency food aid
34.1% critical · 38.3% positiveFunding Momentum
135,040 classified articlesfood rescue donations, meal distribution funding, hunger assistance programs
31.3% critical · 47.8% positiveGrowth
163,836 classified articleswhole-farm revenue policies, earnings report, stock performance
22.1% critical · 48.5% positiveFood and Agriculture coverage tagged Los Angeles. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
RESEARCH SIGNALSWhat Food and Agriculture research is working on
652 papers in the recorded india scope.
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What Food and Agriculture research is working on
652 papers in the recorded india scope.
Research orientation
Contribution mix
Tone counts: 584 positive · 34 neutral · 34 negative.
- Agriculture119 papers
- Food security32 papers
- Climate change21 papers
- Robotics11 papers
- Productivity10 papers
- Sustainability8 papers
- Internet of Things8 papers
- Livelihood8 papers
Landmark: Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for?
- Agriculture26 papers
- Climate change8 papers
- Natural resource economics5 papers
- Weed5 papers
- Food security5 papers
- Tillage4 papers
- Productivity4 papers
- Psychological intervention3 papers
Landmark: An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries
- Agriculture198 papers
- Robot44 papers
- Internet of Things31 papers
- Precision agriculture27 papers
- Climate change21 papers
- Productivity16 papers
- Cloud computing14 papers
- Agroforestry14 papers
Landmark: Responses of soil carbon sequestration to climate‐smart agriculture practices: A meta‐analysis
Leading institutions
Leading researchers
Highly cited breakthrough-labelled papers
- The Robotanist: A ground-based agricultural robot for high-throughput crop phenotyping151 citations
- Self-Powered Sensing for Smart Agriculture by Electromagnetic–Triboelectric Hybrid Generator141 citations
- sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture130 citations
- Blockchain-Based Cloud-Enabled Security Monitoring Using Internet of Things in Smart Agriculture111 citations
- Renewable Energy Integration Into Cloud & IoT-Based Smart Agriculture110 citations
Common problems researchers identify
125 papers · 4 recurring themes
Common problems researchers identify · 01Climate‑Smart Agriculture Challenges
43 papers34.4% of this theme group
Researchers highlight climate impacts, policy gaps, and food‑security risks in Indian agriculture.
Climate change (20) · Agriculture (43) · Food security (17) · Government (6)
Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action
Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview
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| Year | Share index |
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| 2022 | 2087.7 |
| 2023 | 2154.4 |
| 2024 | 2121.1 |
| 2025 | 2354.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 02Robotics and IoT Integration Issues
37 papers29.6% of this theme group
Papers point to technical and adoption barriers for robots and connected devices on farms.
Robotics (10) · Agriculture (32) · Robot (6) · Internet of Things (6)
Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1344.5 |
| 2023 | 1371.8 |
| 2024 | 1420.2 |
| 2025 | 1404.4 |
Common problems researchers identify · 03Economic Constraints on Agricultural Tech
29 papers23.2% of this theme group
Studies discuss limited growth, financing, and market factors hindering technology uptake.
Agriculture (27) · Economic growth (3) · Agricultural economics (4) · Public economics (2)
Agricultural Technology in Africa
Agricultural Technology Choice and Transport
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 819.3 |
| 2023 | 801.0 |
| 2024 | 650.4 |
| 2025 | 375.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 04Nutrient Management and Yield Gaps
16 papers12.8% of this theme group
Research flags inefficiencies in nutrient use and management practices affecting productivity.
Agricultural science (4) · Nutrient management (2) · Nutrient (2) · Agronomy (2)
Meta-analysis of the effects of on-farm management strategies on milk yields of dairy cattle on smallholder farms in the Tropics
An overview of organic, grassfed dairy farm management and factors related to higher milk production
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 389.6 |
| 2023 | 372.3 |
| 2024 | 270.2 |
| 2025 | 197.4 |
Cautions
44 papers · 4 recurring themes
Cautions · 01Sustainability Trade‑offs of Climate‑Smart Practices
16 papers36.4% of this theme group
Authors caution that some climate‑smart approaches may not deliver promised sustainability outcomes.
Climate change (8) · Agriculture (13) · Sustainability (3) · Greenhouse gas (3)
A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debat
Climate smart agriculture and global food-crop production
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2330.1 |
| 2023 | 2430.6 |
| 2024 | 2427.5 |
| 2025 | 2687.8 |
Cautions · 02Adoption Uncertainty in Developing Contexts
14 papers31.8% of this theme group
Evidence shows mixed results and risks when scaling agricultural innovations in low‑resource settings.
Agriculture (11) · Agricultural economics (4) · Diversification (2) · Developing country (2)
An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries
The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 392.7 |
| 2023 | 376.2 |
| 2024 | 353.1 |
| 2025 | 221.7 |
Cautions · 03Health and Safety Risks of Farm Practices
8 papers18.2% of this theme group
Papers raise concerns about animal health, zoonotic disease, and worker safety linked to management choices.
Relationship between farm management strategies, reticuloruminal pH variations, and risks of subacute ruminal acidosis
Farm management practices associated with influenza A virus contamination of people working in Midwestern United States swine farms
Cautions · 04Ecological Limits to Intensification
6 papers13.6% of this theme group
Research warns that intensified systems can undermine soil health and broader ecosystem resilience.
Ecology (2) · Food security (2) · Agriculture (3)
Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda
Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1722.6 |
| 2023 | 1724.9 |
| 2024 | 1524.1 |
| 2025 | 1119.1 |
Opportunities
312 papers · 6 recurring themes
Opportunities · 01Edge‑Enabled Precision Farming
95 papers30.4% of this theme group
Opportunities focus on low‑power AI and sensor platforms for real‑time field decision support.
Agriculture (53) · Precision agriculture (16) · Intrusion detection system (5) · Archaeology (5)
Smart Agriculture Revolution: Edge AI for Precision Farming on Low-Power Embedded Systems
Smart Agriculture System for Soil Analysis and Crop Suggestion using AI Techniques
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 369.9 |
| 2023 | 372.1 |
| 2024 | 472.5 |
| 2025 | 393.8 |
Opportunities · 02Agroforestry and Climate‑Resilient Practices
55 papers17.6% of this theme group
Studies explore diversified land use and tillage methods to mitigate climate impacts and improve yields.
Climate change (18) · Agriculture (46) · Agroforestry (13) · Tillage (7)
Adapting agriculture to climate change: institutional determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture among smallholder farmers in Ken
Climate-smart agriculture: Greenhouse gas mitigation in climate-smart villages of Ghana
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2223.0 |
| 2023 | 2259.9 |
| 2024 | 2327.9 |
| 2025 | 2386.7 |
Opportunities · 03Autonomous Agricultural Robotics
55 papers17.6% of this theme group
Research highlights advances in navigation, perception, and multifunctional robots for farm tasks.
Robot (36) · Mobile robot (7) · Robotics (8) · Agriculture (25)
Vision‐based Obstacle Detection and Navigation for an Agricultural Robot
Smart Multipurpose Agricultural Robot
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 827.0 |
| 2023 | 847.9 |
| 2024 | 840.1 |
| 2025 | 849.0 |
Opportunities · 04IoT‑Cloud Platforms for Farm Monitoring
51 papers16.3% of this theme group
Papers present scalable connectivity and analytics solutions to enhance crop and livestock management.
Internet of Things (27) · Agriculture (35) · Cloud computing (10) · Wireless (6)
Smart Agriculture Based on IoT and Cloud Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Machine Learning Models for Efficient Monitoring of Smart Agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1136.6 |
| 2023 | 1111.1 |
| 2024 | 1090.0 |
| 2025 | 1158.5 |
Opportunities · 05Economic Benefits of Technology Adoption
29 papers9.3% of this theme group
Evidence shows poverty reduction and productivity gains from subsidized or innovative farm tools.
Agricultural economics (8) · Agriculture (23) · Welfare (3) · Agricultural machinery (3)
Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania
Subsidies for Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Improved Grain Storage Bags in Uganda
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 399.5 |
| 2023 | 382.4 |
| 2024 | 359.2 |
| 2025 | 243.2 |
Opportunities · 06Biosecurity and Pollinator Management
27 papers8.7% of this theme group
Research identifies data‑driven strategies to reduce pathogen spread and support pollinator health.
Herd (3) · Flock (3) · Biosecurity (3) · Pollinator (3)
Farm Management, Environment, and Weather Factors Jointly Affect the Probability of Spinach Contamination by Generic Escherichia coli at the
Using farm management practices to predict Campylobacter prevalence in pastured poultry farms
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.3 |
| 2023 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 12.9 |
| 2025 | 14.8 |
How this field compares with the research baseline
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Promising | 35.9% | 37.3% |
| Problem-identifying | 19.8% | 9.4% |
| Descriptive | 16.9% | 17.2% |
| Breakthrough | 15.8% | 26.8% |
| Cautionary | 7.2% | 4.5% |
| Comparative | 2.9% | 3.8% |
| Critical | 1.5% | 1.0% |
Concerns receiving less research attention
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceThe State and Future of Smart Agriculture: Insights from mining social media | 6 | 1.01% | 2 (33.3%) | 1.19% |
| Labour & data workThe Impact of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology | 5 | 0.84% | 2 (40.0%) | 0.21% |
| Energy & datacenter footprint | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.12% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chain | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Safety & misuse | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Bias & fairness | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.
Food and Agriculture in Los Angeles: key questions
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What does this landscape measure?
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
Can segment counts be added together?
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
What does a missing figure mean?
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 1 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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