Blockchain Meets AI For Sustainable And EUDR-Compliant Coffee Production – CoffeeTalk

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Coffee, originating in Africa and expanding globally, has become a global industry worth $460 billion. However, the industry faces numerous challenges, including deforestation, income disparities, and ethical sourcing among consumers. The Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR) is a framework designed to limit Europe’s contribution to global deforestation, requiring products on the EU market to be deforestation-free and produced in full compliance with local environmental and labor laws.

The EUDR rules primarily target imported goods, highlighting the need for worldwide supply chain solutions to ensure compliance. However, most smallholder farmers, who make up the majority of coffee producers, are barely making a living income and many countries in the coffee belt are technologically underequipped. This lack of resources limits the ability to track production processes and makes it virtually impossible to comply with stringent regulations such as EUDR.

Emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things provide a way to efficiently trace supply chains, optimize farming, and improve yields. The combination of these technologies may help local farmers take necessary actions to abide by EUDR rules, which will be enforced later for small businesses.

Dimitra, a global agricultural technology company, focuses on transforming agriculture with cutting-edge technologies, leveraging blockchain, IoT, and AI to help farmers improve productivity, reduce costs, and meet regulatory demands. Connected Coffee is Dimitra’s all-in-one platform that brings coffee farmers, cooperatives, and traders together, serving as a supply chain management solution that tracks coffee from cultivation to distribution and provides data such as product origin, ingredients, and farming techniques involved.

The ecosystem also enables smart farming with the help of IoT and AI, providing farmers with access to real-time field and storage data, and AI analyzing field data to make suggestions for plant and harvest time and water schedule. In-app purchases are also available on Connected Coffee to improve user experience and make better purchase decisions.

Dimitra also partners with large agricultural companies that prioritize local farmers’ well-being, such as Alkaff and ARASCO, to connect farmers to international markets while scaling the platform. By utilizing Dimitra’s deforestation platform, Alkaff will map its entire supply chain and prepare automatic due diligence reports to ensure compliance.

Dimitra supports over 1,000,000 farmers and has partners in 68 countries, empowering farmers from diverse regions like Indonesia, Ethiopia, Honduras, Cameroon, and Saudi Arabia.

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Source: Coffee Talk

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