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Exchange-rate basis

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THE LOS ANGELES EDITION 2026

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.

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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

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MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Los Angeles’s food and agriculture leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Food and Agriculture company highlights in Los Angeles, snapshot 1 September 2026
Company
Herbalifeherbalife.com$1.25B9,200$5.04BFYFY2025 filing
LIVEKINDLYlivekindly.com$535.77M12
Sweetgreensweetgreen.com$479.07M9 roles4,877$679.47MFYFY2025 filing
Liquid Deathliquiddeath.com$318.83M187
Daringdaring.com$113M44
Yumihelloyumi.com$79.1M72
COREhydratewithcore.com$65.52M15
The Veggie Grillveggiegrill.com$65.27M700
Jersey Mike\'sjerseymikes.com11 roles306
Aspire Bakeriesaspirebakeries.com10 roles4,200
Mendocino Farmsmendocinofarms.com10 roles467
California Pizza Kitchencpk.com9 roles6,557
GT\'s Living Foodsgtslivingfoods.com8 roles
Wolfgang Puck Cateringwolfgangpuckcatering.com8 roles804
susiecakessusiecakes.com8 roles330
Absorptionabsorbmore.com
Barfresh Food Groupbarfresh.com13$14.21MFYFY2025 filing
Erewhonship.erewhon.com
FIJI Waterfijiwater.com540
Fishwifeeatfishwife.com10
Fuji Food Productsfujifood.com501
Gin & Luckginandluck.com49Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Piquepiquelife.com31
Real Good Foodsrealgoodfoods.com130$141.59MFYFY2022 filing
24 featured companies

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Recorded evidence only

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Food and Agriculture industry KPIs in Los Angeles

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

1 September 2026
Hiring participation11.2%

69 of 614 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation21.7%

133 of 614 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share57.7%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$3.5M

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.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Los Angeles food and agriculture has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Los Angeles food and agriculture
$0$454.92M$909.85M$1.36B$1.82B2016: $105.03M20162017: $27.74M20172018: $1.6B20182019: $209.81M20192020: $486.97M20202021: $538.44M20212022: $252.21M20222023: $155.18M20232024: $215.11M20242025: $53.4M2025
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Annual food and agriculture funding and company formation in Los Angeles
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$105.03M3512
2017$27.74M1811
2018$1.6B2923
2019$209.81M4015
2020$486.97M3626
2021$538.44M3327
2022$252.21M1726
2023$155.18M1519
2024$215.11M716
2025$53.4M29
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

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

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel100 40.7%
Series A–B86 35.0%
Series C+ / PE20 8.1%
Grants, debt & other40 16.3%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
3 rounds

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Series A05/2026
MOSH $13M

Backed by Main Street Advisors and Great Circle Ventures and others.

Seed04/2026
Aqua Theon $5.01M

Backed by Beyond Next Ventures and Sparks Asset Management.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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USD · millions · consolidated

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.

Revenue in covered accounts

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Los Angeles market sales.

Net profit / loss

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities

None of 3 covered entities.

Top-five concentration

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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LOS ANGELES · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does food and agriculture compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

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.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

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.

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.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
Jersey Mike\'sJersey Mike\'s6.7M4.8Food & Drink
Herbalife ShopHerbalife4.2M4.1Business
Herbalife LearnHerbalife563.1K4.5Education
LearningHerbalife531.7K3.4Health & Fitness
sweetgreenSweetgreen504.7K4.8Food & Drink
California Pizza Kitchen (CPK)California Pizza Kitchen475.3K4.6Food & Drink
The Coffee Bean® RewardsThe Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf456.1K2.5Food & Drink
WaBa RewardsWaBa Grill367.2K4.7Food & Drink
Menchie\'sMenchie’s314K3Food & Drink
Engage - Your ClubHerbalife168.1K3.6Health & 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).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Food Retailers95.6MHerbalife Shop 4.2M
Traditional Nutraceuticals75.6MHerbalife Learn 563.1K
Food & Beverage Products6538.7KThe Coffee Bean® Rewards 456.1K
Food Distributors32.7KWorldwide 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.

2023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12024Q1: 12024Q1: 02024Q12025Q1: 12025Q1: 22025Q12025Q2: 22025Q2: 22025Q22025Q3: 32025Q3: 42025Q32026Q1: 12026Q1: 72026Q1

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 INDUSTRY

The Los Angeles food and agriculture market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Internet first brands68
Consumer digital35
B2c e-commerce27
Plant based foods25
B2c grocery delivery23
Uber for grocery delivery23
Nutritional formula18
Inc 500011
Deep tech9
Novel foods8
Enterprise tech6
Internet first snack brands6

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Internet first brands

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

68companies
10.3%have hiring activity

7 companies hiring · $349.09M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

E-commerce - product432
Physical commerce216
E-commerce - service62
Advertising60
Commission on transaction55
Fee-for-service45
Subscription17
Sponsorship7
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
IPO activityjerseymikes.com ↗

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.

Mergers & acquisitionsherbalife.com ↗

Herbalife acquired the personalized nutrition company Bioniq

Mergers & acquisitionscpk.com ↗

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.

Mergers & acquisitionsalfred.la ↗

Future Group, a York-headquartered marketing group, has acquired PR and Social agency, Alfred.

Mergers & acquisitionsbarfresh.com ↗

Barfresh’s entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Arps Dairy.

Mergers & acquisitionssweetgreen.com ↗

the brand’s acquisition of Spyce for about $70 million in 2021.

Funding roundsliquiddeath.com ↗

US canned water producer Liquid Death has received investment from venture-capital firm 4th & 1 Ventures.

Mergers & acquisitionsdaring.com ↗

V2food, an Australia-based producer of plant-based meat, is purchasing U.S. vegan chicken maker Daring Foods

Funding roundswearednm.com ↗

The business incubator, CSI Kick Start, made its first investment in Delicious Nutritious Markets based in Los Angeles in 2014.

Funding roundsthinkjinx.com ↗

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.

Leadership moves
66
Company announcements
63
Earnings
53
Mergers & acquisitions
31
Asset acquisitions
28
Contracts
13
Funding rounds
11
New products
8
Capital infusions
2
IPO activity
2
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IPO pipeline

1 companies with recorded IPO activity

IPO3 reports

Leadership moves

30 tracked people moves

Sweetgreen ↗
Chris Tarrant

Departure Previously Chief Development Officer

Sweetgreen ↗
Ryan Slemons

Appointment Chief Development Officer

Stacy Peterson

Appointment President and COO

WaBa Grill ↗
Afshin Compani

Promotion President and Chief Operating Officer

Giumarra ↗
Anthony Stallings

Appointment Chief Financial Officer

Giumarra ↗
Tim Riley

Appointment President and Chief Executive Officer

Caliwater ↗
Blair Owens

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Herbalife ↗
Dr. Agwunobi

Appointment Co-President

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Herbalife ↗
HL Skin AI

Personal Care

Herbalife ↗
F1 Dates Caramel variant

Nutrition

erewhon ↗
The World’s Healthiest Smoothie?

Smoothie

Workforce actions

2 companies with reported reductions

Sweetgreen ↗

10.0% rolescost reduction

Lowell ↗

45.0% rolescost reduction

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

7companies
65period observations
4.3%median reported growth

Median across 37 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
HerbalifebioniqCompleted2026-04-14Not stated in snapshot
consortium brand partnersCalifornia Pizza Kitchen ↗Announced2026-02-03$300.0M
future groupAlfred ↗Announced2026-02-02Not stated in snapshot
golden gate capitalCalifornia Pizza Kitchen ↗2025-12-17$470.0M
Barfresh Food Grouparps dairyAnnounced2025-11-27Not stated in snapshot
SweetgreenspyceCompleted2025-11-06$70.0M

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

4,386 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7,949-posting snapshot covers 90 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Server99
Barista94
Restaurant Manager89
Shift Supervisor88
Associate Chef76
General Manager60
0 internship postings

175 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

1,744 postings specify a level.

unspecified
6,205
manager
1,050
senior
400
lead
207
intern
77
entry
10

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 7,949 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Cashiering
160
Excel
148
Food Runner
144
Word
117
Busser
94
Excel,Word
51
Bartender
50
Bls
30
Microsoft Office
25
Dishwashing
20
ADVERTISED PAY$49.9K/ year

Median across 1,130 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$100.0K/ year139 postings
senior$90.2K/ year54 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

310 founders and chief executives across 225 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

27 profiles with education records.

Stanford University
4
University of California (Los Angeles)
4
Cornell University
4
Harvard University
3
Yale University
2
University of California (Berkeley)
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
University of Pennsylvania
2

Prior employers

4 profiles with prior-work records.

eBay
1
Amazon
1
Goldman Sachs
1
Bain
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

18,847 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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18,847articles in the measured year
5,278articles in 2026Q1
73.1%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Los Angeles · articles per complete quarter

03,3236,6469,96913,2922021Q2: 3,6602021Q22021Q3: 3,6802021Q4: 3,3172022Q1: 4,2482022Q2: 3,7912022Q22022Q3: 3,4892022Q4: 3,4352023Q1: 3,9282023Q2: 4,2022023Q22023Q3: 4,0722023Q4: 4,0702024Q1: 5,5952024Q2: 4,8632024Q22024Q3: 4,9852024Q4: 4,9802025Q1: 11,5582025Q2: 4,1262025Q22025Q3: 5,6382025Q4: 4,0002026Q1: 5,2782026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q23,660
2021Q33,680
2021Q43,317
2022Q14,248
2022Q23,791
2022Q33,489
2022Q43,435
2023Q13,928
2023Q24,202
2023Q34,072
2023Q44,070
2024Q15,595
2024Q24,863
2024Q34,985
2024Q44,980
2025Q111,558
2025Q24,126
2025Q35,638
2025Q44,000
2026Q15,278

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
7,941 positive · 121 neutral · 3,256 negative
2022
10,663 positive · 156 neutral · 4,095 negative
2023
11,471 positive · 121 neutral · 4,619 negative
2024
14,267 positive · 148 neutral · 5,931 negative
2025
18,448 positive · 170 neutral · 6,620 negative

Leading coverage topics

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Los Angeles · ranked by full-period article count.

Formula One Championships16,705 articles in the full recorded period
3,112 recent · 4,105 prior
Executive Leadership Changes And Appointments16,639 articles in the full recorded period
3,837 recent · 4,466 prior
College Athletics News14,424 articles in the full recorded period
4,357 recent · 2,567 prior
New Product Launches And Innovations14,091 articles in the full recorded period
3,573 recent · 3,297 prior
Homelessness Prevention Programs13,199 articles in the full recorded period
2,950 recent · 2,770 prior
Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) Programs12,090 articles in the full recorded period
2,456 recent · 2,924 prior
Strategic Partnerships And Collaborations11,922 articles in the full recorded period
3,108 recent · 2,709 prior
Rural Community Development Programs11,129 articles in the full recorded period
2,635 recent · 2,321 prior
Seafood Sourcing And Aquaculture11,071 articles in the full recorded period
3,559 recent · 2,937 prior
Seafood And Shellfish Categories10,698 articles in the full recorded period
3,736 recent · 2,680 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

United States comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
shrimp aquaculture1,46998050%
land-frozen seafood1,37879074%
shrimp harvest1,13264376%
shrimp1,12668664%
college playoffs1,02966655%
ceo change1,02969049%
crab availability96364849%
fresh shellfish90858356%
tuna steak90253967%
flash-frozen seafood89448385%
f1 world championship1,9723,224-39%
f1 championship1,8632,930-36%
poultry health8042,053-61%
wildlife disease monitoring3771,952-81%
h5n1 avian influenza3561,818-80%

Event and signal lenses

United States comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

418,778 classified articles

food rescue donations, meal distribution funding, emergency food aid

34.1% critical · 38.3% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

135,040 classified articles

food rescue donations, meal distribution funding, hunger assistance programs

31.3% critical · 47.8% positive
Rising

Growth

163,836 classified articles

whole-farm revenue policies, earnings report, stock performance

22.1% critical · 48.5% positive

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Los Angeles. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

RESEARCH SIGNALS

What Food and Agriculture research is working on

652 papers in the recorded india scope.

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652papers
8,585worldwide comparison pool
652India-affiliated papers

Research orientation

Promising
234
Problem-identifying
129
Descriptive
110
Breakthrough
103
Cautionary
47
Comparative
19
Critical
10

Contribution mix

Empirical
286
Methods-led
221
Reviews
101
Position pieces
40
Theoretical
4

Tone counts: 584 positive · 34 neutral · 34 negative.

Common problems researchers identify
139 papers · 21.3% of this field
  • 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?

Cautions
47 papers · 7.2% of this field
  • 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

Opportunities
337 papers · 51.7% of this field
  • 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

International Food Policy Research Institute
1,024
University of Kentucky
809
Colorado State University
585
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
527
Agricultural Research Service
525
Georgia Institute of Technology
503

Leading researchers

Leslie Lipper
635
Andrea Cattaneo
568
Wei Ren
476
Xiongxiong Bai
470
Yawen Huang
470
Mark S. Coyne
470
Pierre-André Jacinthe
470
Solomon Asfaw
389

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
4 cards

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Climate‑Smart Agriculture ChallengesCommon problems researchers identify · 01

Climate‑Smart Agriculture Challenges

43 papers

34.4% 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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YearShare index
20222087.7
20232154.4
20242121.1
20252354.5
Robotics and IoT Integration IssuesCommon problems researchers identify · 02

Robotics and IoT Integration Issues

37 papers

29.6% 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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YearShare index
20221344.5
20231371.8
20241420.2
20251404.4
Economic Constraints on Agricultural TechCommon problems researchers identify · 03

Economic Constraints on Agricultural Tech

29 papers

23.2% 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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YearShare index
2022819.3
2023801.0
2024650.4
2025375.5
Nutrient Management and Yield GapsCommon problems researchers identify · 04

Nutrient Management and Yield Gaps

16 papers

12.8% 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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YearShare index
2022389.6
2023372.3
2024270.2
2025197.4

Cautions

44 papers · 4 recurring themes
4 cards

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Sustainability Trade‑offs of Climate‑Smart PracticesCautions · 01

Sustainability Trade‑offs of Climate‑Smart Practices

16 papers

36.4% 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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YearShare index
20222330.1
20232430.6
20242427.5
20252687.8
Adoption Uncertainty in Developing ContextsCautions · 02

Adoption Uncertainty in Developing Contexts

14 papers

31.8% 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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YearShare index
2022392.7
2023376.2
2024353.1
2025221.7
Health and Safety Risks of Farm PracticesCautions · 03

Health and Safety Risks of Farm Practices

8 papers

18.2% 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

Ecological Limits to IntensificationCautions · 04

Ecological Limits to Intensification

6 papers

13.6% 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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YearShare index
20221722.6
20231724.9
20241524.1
20251119.1

Opportunities

312 papers · 6 recurring themes
6 cards

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Edge‑Enabled Precision FarmingOpportunities · 01

Edge‑Enabled Precision Farming

95 papers

30.4% 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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YearShare index
2022369.9
2023372.1
2024472.5
2025393.8
Agroforestry and Climate‑Resilient PracticesOpportunities · 02

Agroforestry and Climate‑Resilient Practices

55 papers

17.6% 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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YearShare index
20222223.0
20232259.9
20242327.9
20252386.7
Autonomous Agricultural RoboticsOpportunities · 03

Autonomous Agricultural Robotics

55 papers

17.6% 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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YearShare index
2022827.0
2023847.9
2024840.1
2025849.0
IoT‑Cloud Platforms for Farm MonitoringOpportunities · 04

IoT‑Cloud Platforms for Farm Monitoring

51 papers

16.3% 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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YearShare index
20221136.6
20231111.1
20241090.0
20251158.5
Economic Benefits of Technology AdoptionOpportunities · 05

Economic Benefits of Technology Adoption

29 papers

9.3% 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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YearShare index
2022399.5
2023382.4
2024359.2
2025243.2
Biosecurity and Pollinator ManagementOpportunities · 06

Biosecurity and Pollinator Management

27 papers

8.7% 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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YearShare index
202218.3
202318.0
202412.9
202514.8

How this field compares with the research baseline

Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.

Research orientationThis fieldReference sample
Promising35.9%37.3%
Problem-identifying19.8%9.4%
Descriptive16.9%17.2%
Breakthrough15.8%26.8%
Cautionary7.2%4.5%
Comparative2.9%3.8%
Critical1.5%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 paperPapersShareRaised as a problemWorldwide share
Privacy & surveillanceThe State and Future of Smart Agriculture: Insights from mining social media61.01%2 (33.3%)1.19%
Labour & data workThe Impact of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology50.84%2 (40.0%)0.21%
Energy & datacenter footprint00.0%0 (%)0.12%
Water use00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Carbon & emissions of compute00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Hardware, e-waste & supply chain00.0%0 (%)0.04%
Safety & misuse00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Bias & fairness00.0%0 (%)0.04%
Concentration of compute power00.0%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.

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