Sustainable Agriculture

Meeta Vouk

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Lets talk about our food

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Let’s build a smarter, safer, more sustainable food supply chain

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IBM Food Trust leverages blockchain to address main food industry concerns

Trace Certification Freshness* Consumer*

Early Adopters

Food Supply Chain

Ecosystem

Modules

Blockchain

Technology

IBM Food Trust solution provides secure access to end-to-end food supply chain information via specialized modules

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Food Safety Supply Chain Optimization Food Waste Consumer Demand

Most digital connections are point to point

or through a broker

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The Problem

What if we could make the

system distributed and

disintermediated the brokers

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The Solution

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Blockchain

is the new operating system of trust

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IBM Food Trust provides value to the entire food ecosystem

Growers

▪ Prove farm is not a

source of outbreak

▪ Ease of connectivity

to the supply chain

Consumers

▪ Learn about recalls

and increased

transparency

▪ Reduce risk of being

victimized by food

fraud

Regulators

▪ Identify

contamination

quickly

▪ Reduce unnecessary

testingFood Service

▪ Assure customers

food supplied Is safe

▪ Reduce wasted food

Food Logistics

▪ Enhance ability to

meet compliance

standards

▪ Reduce manual

processes

Food Retailers

▪ Assure customers

food supplied is safe

▪ Conduct targeted

recalls quickly

Certification Bodies

▪ Reduce

fraudulent

certificates

▪ Increase renewal

speed

Food Manufacturers

/ CPGs

▪ Instill trust between

retails, suppliers &

customers

▪ Automate & reduce

manual certificate

managementWholesalers

/ Distributors

▪ Conduct targeted

recalls

▪ Enable internal data

sharing

AI

will transform our

lives

Dynamic Agronomic Information

Environmental Factors

Plant Physiological

AI for Precision Agriculture

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AI-Powered Decision Platform Foundational Services

Indicator of crop health at 1/10th acre resolutionCrop Health Monitoring1

Soil Moisture Estimation2

Crop Disease Prediction3

Yield Estimation 4

Acreage Estimation 5

Provides soil moisture level at the roots of a crop using remote sensing

Provides early warning on a possible crop disease attack

Provides yield estimation at every crop growth stage

Provides estimation of area under cultivation for diverse crops

Agri insights and early warnings can trigger corrective actions

Bringing it all together

Blockchain + AI

AI + Blockchain for the Food & Agri Ecosystem

Remote and Local Sensing (IoT)

Agri-Food-Chain Enablers

Banks Insurance RegulatorsInput Providers Farmer Farm Aggregator CPG Retailer Consumer

Real time Insights to all players

Evidence of Farm Conditions, Actions, Transportation

Weather and local conditions

AI Decision Platform

▪ Yield Improvement▪ Pest/Disease Prediction▪ Soil Nutrient, Fertigation Services▪ NDVI, Soil Moisture

▪ Traceability/Sustainability▪ Food Safety▪ Agri/Farmer Financing ▪ Agri Subsidy Management▪ Depository Insurance

Government

Blockchain Trust Platform

What will we solve together?

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