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Catalyzing Climate-Smart Agri-Food Innovation & Investment in Mexico

The renowned World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit successfully launched in Mexico City on October 29-30, 2024. Welcoming 350+ local and international stakeholders from across the agri-food value chain, including farming associations, major agribusinesses, food and beverage companies, technology providers, public research centers, leading investors and innovative start-ups, the summit explored collaborative opportunities to drive climate-smart agri-food innovation and investment across the region.

Through expert panels, start-up showcases, interactive sessions, curated networking opportunities and 1-1 meetings, industry experts provided in-depth insight into agtech solutions targeted at smallholder farmers, including smart irrigation solutions and digital platforms; new opportunities emerging in biological crop protection and post-harvest technologies; the latest innovations in controlled environment horticulture driven by year-round demand for high-value fresh produce; and the challenges presented by the transition to regenerative agricultural practices.

Focused on the vast investment opportunities presented by the nascent agricultural technology industry in the region, as well as strategies for capitalizing on nearshoring opportunities between Mexico and international partners in food production, the summit facilitated the connections and synergies necessary to advance Mexican agriculture to its full potential.

See who joined us in Mexico City:

• Empowering Smallholder Farmers: Scalable solutions to adapt agtech to the needs of smallholder farmers
• Capitalizing on Nearshoring Opportunities: Leveraging alliances between Mexican companies and international partners in food production
• Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture: Corporate and government programs enabling farmer adoption of climate smart agriculture
• Financial Inclusion: Unlocking innovative finance and fintech solutions that facilitate access to capital
• Optimizing Water Use: Implementing smart irrigation solutions and water management to tackle drought
• Biologicals Market Expansion: Accessing emerging opportunities for biocontrol and bionutrition
• Digitalizing Mexican Agriculture: Digital tools, platforms and automation to address labor shortages and improve smallholder farm management
• Optimizing Controlled Environment Horticulture: Advanced technologies and seed varieties enabling high-quality, year-round fresh produce
• Post Harvest Innovations: Enhancing the quality, safety and reliability of high-value crops through advanced technologies to drive global export growth
• Driving Investment into Mexican AgTech: Fostering venture and private equity investment into a rapidly growing market

Rethink summits are created by experts in the agri-food, water and materials industries to address the issues most crucial to investors, technology developers and stakeholders in each sector.

With ten years’ experience organising agtech events around the world, we have developed the world’s leading database of agribusinesses, investors and start-ups in this space. World Agri-Tech Middle East & Africa joins a globally acclaimed portfolio which includes World Agri-Tech in San Francisco, London and São Paulo; the Indoor AgTech summit in Chicago; the Blue Food summit in London; Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in Singapore; Animal AgTech in San Francisco and Amsterdam; and the Future Food-Tech summits in San Francisco, London and Chicago.

Through our global network of industry advisors, we produce highly-focused, topical summits which gather all the right people together in one room to share ideas, find solutions and identify new business opportunities. We are committed to providing the world-leading platforms for knowledge-sharing, debate and networking for business leaders, featuring the leading experts and gamechangers from across the global ecosystem. Our goal is to promote diversity and inclusion, with particular effort to phase out all-male speaker panels to ensure balanced representation and promotion of women in technology and business.

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