Let's not forget that many developing countries still rely in primary production as a means to sustain their population ... and that ICT has the power to uplift their lives - Kenya mobile phone allowed local farmers to search for local market prices to sell fresh produce - organic coffee farmers are banding together to offer premium beans direct to consumers by e-procurement - GPS to map out ownership tracts to prevent slash&burn tactics that lead to deforestation in Amazon and now we're having - precision agriculture from drones, robots and software - micro-climate (for wines) using mass weather stations - individual tracking of healthy & resulting production - better insurance products to mitigate risks
AgTech is not going to be a sexy VC 10x unicorn sector but anything that helps feed the additional 2 billion extra population without degrading the carrying capacity is doubleplus good. Note that with increasing prosperity there is demand on more protein which are less efficient as energy / gram compared with basic starchy staples and the Chinese with their perchant for exotic ingredients have probably endangered too many species so AgTech is gong to need even more investment in the areas of - gengineering to reduce the phosphate/nitrogen demands (algae bloom anyone) - rethinking the optimal usage/delivery of Ibio)pesticides/herbicides - climate resilience ... some portions are going to get saltier or more variable - large scale geoengineering ... Aust with thin topsoil is not sustainable for expansion - reducing methane emissions from ruminent animals I believe the Hamilton accelerator in NZ specialises in AgTech plays (email me for details to enter). I just wish more was spent on basic science/tech than the FinTech speculating on AgTech. Lawrence http://www.linkedin.com/in/drllau On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 06:16:48 UTC+8, Dean Collins wrote: > > Good to see lots of interest in this event. > > - > https://www.beefcentral.com/ag-tech/interest-in-agtech-soaring-as-1100-attend-evokeag-event > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Dean Collins > Cognation Inc > d...@cognation.net > <javascript:>+1-212-203-4357 > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
