Leveraging the IBM Food Trust Platform in Jamaica for Food and Agriculture Traceability

🌎The past week for us was all about the wonderful food products of beautiful Jamaica – supply chain management, transparency, traceability, and secure immutable tracking using IBM AI and Blockchain enabled technology…

Some of our team were so pleased to be in beautiful Jamaica, along with our business partners at IBM and bSMARTe Logistics, meeting with food and agriculture sector businesses, members of parliament, and the board of the Jamaican Manufacturing and Export Association — so many passionate and super smart people.

We’re excited to be promoting and working to implement IBM Food Trust, an initiative that’s all about enabling sustainable food ecosystems. The AI and blockchain driven technology platform improves supply chain transparency dramatically — farm to table secure immutable tracking of food products to ensure quality, pedigree, traceability, and capture data regarding sustainable practices. This in turn also supports efficiency, better supply chain management, regulatory compliance, and better access to markets for the farmers, food producers, distributors, and sellers involved.

And yes, when it comes to Jamaica, that’s all about so many incredible delights … from scotch bonnet peppers, to jerk sauce, to the juiciest delectable mangoes, to delicious ackee fruit (which some on our team have only just discovered), to lovely teas, yams, cane sugar, rum, and so much more.

In the immortal words of a quite famous pirate, “Where’s the rum?”