• Restaurant Toks to track coffee
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    Mexico’s Restaurant Toks tracking coffee on blockchain

    Simba Chain’s smart-contract-as-a-service platform is helping the casual dining chain track the source and sustainability of the coffee it serves

    Restaurant Toks, a casual dining chain with 208 locations across Mexico, has teamed up with blockchain provider Simba Chain and the University of Notre Dame to create a distributed application to register and track every coffee bean it has "purchased, processed, packaged, and sold."

  • Nestlé brews consumer coffee blockchain
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    Blockachaino: Nestlé brews consumer coffee blockchain

    The food giant has expanded its use of IBM Food Trust blockchain technology to deliver full transparency on the provenance of a steaming cup of joe

    Swedish coffee aficionados can trace their arabica beans back to their place of origin after Nestlé expanded its use of blockchain technology to its Rainforest Alliance Certified Zoégas brand

  • Commerce Secretary, Dr. Anup Wadhawan activating coffee e-marketplace in New Delhi (Image supplied by India's Ministry of Commerce).
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    India launches blockchain marketplace for coffee

    By tracing coffee from beanfields to cups, the goal is to build a stronger brand while doubling the income of poor farmers

    India’s commerce secretary launched a blockchain-based marketplace app for trading Indian coffee during a video conference on Thursday. A pilot project carried out in partnership with the Coffee Board of India and the International Coffee Organization, the marketplace app’s goal is to reduce the number of intermediaries between coffee growers and buyers, build farm-to-cup traceability, and help farmers increase their incomes by as much as 100 percent, said Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan during the video conference on March 28.