Summit Highlights

Enhancing Resilience and Sustainability in Mexican Agriculture

"Danone Impact Journey has three main points: we measure all the progress that we do through food for consumers and patients; we measure everything we do to preserve and regenerate nature; and we also measure what we do for communities," shared Silvia. "Agriculture holds a central position. Not only is it important but it has become more challenging. We are all living through climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity decline and so we are committing to really decarbonize our supply chain in helping the transition into reg ag." 

- Silvia Davila, President Latam, DANONE

With: FIRA, DRISCOLL'S, BAYER, and DANONE

Driving Investment into Mexican AgTech

"Solo una tercera parte de las emisiones vienen de la agricultura y existen soluciones que pueden salir de la agricultura, especificamente siendo el granero de soluciones. Estamos en el momento cierto para evolucionar este el ecosistema." 

- Ariadne Caballero, Partner, SP VENTURES

With: THE YIELD LAB LATAM, CO_CAPITAL, GLOCAL LATAM, SP VENTURES, and NEW VENTURES

Capitalizing on Nearshoring

"Somos un sector que nos hemos podido beneficiar de una enorme complementariedad con Estados Unidos. Si vemos lo que se ha transformado nuestro campo en México los últimos 30 años, nos damos cuenta que este proceso de nearshoriong empezó primero con nuestro sector. Tenemos una geografia y un clima ventajoso para productos que en EE.UU. no lo tienen." 

- Juan Cortina Gallardo, President, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL

With: GRUPO CONSULTOR DE MERCADOS AGRÍCOLAS, CONSEJO NACIONAL DE AGRICULTURA, SANTANDER, and the ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS RELOCATION FOR THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT

Digitalizing Mexican Agriculture

"With true data, we can shorten the path between the fields and the capital markets. This can be done through different approaches - working through channels, consolidating farmers for market access. Overall, we're looking to bring more transparency on what's going on in the fields so that the capital markets are more comfortable working with this kind of operation." 

- Pedro Ronzani, Head of LATAM, EARTHDAILY AGRO

With: WONDERFUL CITRUS, NUUP, FIRA, GRUPO MODELO, EARTHDAILY AGRO and GRAINCHAIN INC

From AI technologies, satellite imagery and fin-tech solutions designed to modernize the industry, six exciting early-stage start-ups took to the stage to present their disruptive solutions in front of two investor judges.

Selected by our expert panel and audience, BLOOMS was crowned the 2024 Start-Up Showcase winner.

Here are just some of the global players and industry leaders who joined us at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in Mexico on October 28-29, 2024: