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The Rainforest Alliance Announces Winners of the International Ag-Tech Developer Challenge

The Rainforest Alliance’s Ag-Tech Developer Challenge received entries from 50 organizations globally. CropIn, India’s leading agri-tech company, won first place, and 20tree.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in the Netherlands, earned second place. The Rainforest Alliance announced on July 2, 2019 the two winners of the first-ever international Ag-Tech Developer Challenge. 50 organizations took […]

Press Release
July 2, 2019

New Integrated Pest Management App

A new app helps farmers implement Integrated Pest Management techniques and reduce pesticide use.... Continue Reading

Article
June 13, 2019

Digital and Satellite Technology Program Launches to Support Ghana’s Smallholder Cocoa Farmers

SAT4Farming, an initiative to reach thousands of small-scale cocoa producers with information and services to improve their productivity and sustainability, was announced today. It is designed to use digital technology and satellite imagery to create individual Farm Development Plans (FDPs) that guide farmers over a seven-year period. The digital FDPs provide a planning and monitoring […]

Press Release
July 10, 2018

The Rainforest Alliance Farmer Training App

The Rainforest Alliance Farmer Training App offers an interesting example of using digital technologies to increase farmer knowledge, connect farmers into peer-sharing networks and promote sustainable agricultural practices. In 2014, the Rainforest Alliance piloted a digital platform among 600 smallholders in Guatemala as a proof of concept for using technology to improve communication and information […]

Case Study
March 27, 2018