Tag: blockchain

World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit

October 20, 2020

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit takes place each year in London, San Francisco and São Paulo . With more than 41 countries represented in London

Now that cannabis is essential, it’s time to roll out the tech

June 10, 2020

It’s time to put the stigmas to bed and the pipettes to work and give cannabis a chance to work its magic. It’s that essential, writes Kevin McKernan.

Digitizing global commodities trading will take “a lot of time.” Covantis is set to start in Brazil

April 27, 2020

The heavyweight list of project owners includes ADM, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO, Louis Dreyfus Company, and Glencore Agriculture.

Various grains in bags for sale at market

Cargill and Agrocorp complete groundbreaking $12m intercontinental wheat trade on blockchain

April 16, 2020

Hyperledger Fabric tech allowed the agribiz giants to settle a North America-Southeast Asia transaction that would normally take a month in just five hours.

DiMuto scores funding to take its traceability tech global

March 30, 2020

The Singaporean startup’s blockchain platform offers enhanced supply chain visibility to the fruit industry – and it has Latin America in its sights.

THRIVE Ag& Food Tech Innovation Summit 2020

March 25, 2020

The THRIVE Innovation Summit is held annually in Silicon Valley and each year attracts 250+ agribusiness leaders, investors, AgTech and FoodTech startups, and California and

Foodshed.io lands deal with Schnucks to bring the farmers’ market to the produce department

March 11, 2020

Local food is hot but there’s a disconnect between local producers and grocery retailers that Foodshed.io is hoping to solve.

GrainChain scores $5m more from Overstock.com’s blockchain-focused Medici Ventures

March 6, 2020

“GrainChain has quietly become one of the most successful blockchain-meets-agriculture platforms on the market by allowing more and more farmers to receive fair value and prompt payment for their crops, while also selling to a larger pool of buyers,” said Overstock CEO and Medici Ventures president Jonathan Johnson

EXCLUSIVE: Farmobile patents blockchain tech to protect and manage growers’ data

March 3, 2020

Farmers continue to show skepticism and distrust when it comes to providing data to third-parties but Farmobile hopes its new patented blockchain tool can foster more trust.

Agri Venture Sweden

November 27, 2019

We invite Swedish agri & agtech entrepreneurs, together with local and global industry experts, investors and business angels. Over two days you will network with

‘The lunacy of blockchain’ drove commodities veterans to launch new technology association

October 23, 2019

It’s too soon for blockchain, according to a new trade association that says the industry first needs to convert paper documents in envelopes to a unified digital system.

BRIEF: Alibaba and Bayer to create Blockchain-based Ag Tracking System

October 2, 2019

Alibaba’s Ant Financial teams up with Bayer Crop Science to create blockchain-based tech to improve the lives of farmers. Read on for details.

GrainChain uses Blockchain to link up Honduras’ disjointed coffee industry

September 25, 2019

GrainChain is linking up Honduras’ disjointed coffee supply chain with blockchain. We speak to its CEO on how it helps coffee’s journey from plant to mug.

The Trends of the Agrifood in 2025 by Juan Francisco Delgado

September 25, 2019

How are the #Agrifood trends going to be for # 2025? How do technological advances influence? And how do the changing wishes of consumers influence?

Global Agripreneurs Summit

September 7, 2019

This year’s theme will be centered around “Defining the Future Farmer 4.0”. Envisioning how technology will transform the current role of the farmer and what

How TERRA helps GrainCorp keep up with speed of technology change

August 29, 2019

Like most corporates the size of GrainCorp and many of the world’s agribusinesses, the company is not positioned or organized in a way that makes it possible to survey the startup scene as often as necessary. Step in TERRA, the accelerator from RocketSpace and Rabobank.

Startup Europe Smart Agrifood Summit

June 20, 2019

Startup Europe Smart Agrifood Summit, an industry leading exhibition in creating innovative ecosystems in the European and Global Agrifood sector. The cities digital transformation is

AGRI Tech Venture Forum

May 15, 2019

The ag tech landscape has evolved significantly in recent years. As the sector expands and continues to gain momentum as a critical industry for a

2019 Silicon Valley AgTech Conference

May 13, 2019

The Silicon Valley AgTech Conference is now part of Internet of Things World, the leading conference and exhibition for strategists, technologists, developers, and implementers. Don’t

Why Olam is Deploying Tech First, Then Thinking About CVC

November 7, 2018

“We have realized that some companies have gone down the wrong path by adopting the approach of inventing the problem. They find a technology that’s exciting and try to force-fit that technology for a problem that they don’t have, Suresh Sundararajan tells AgFunderNews.