A group of global coffee companies aims to launch a blockchain platform to track coffee using an IBM-developed app by early 2020.
Farmer Connect, a tech startup developing farm-to-client traceability tools, has teamed up with the world’s top coffee firms such as Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) and Smucker to apply blockchain to coffee supply chain tracking using the IBM (NYSE:IBM) Food Trust Platform, the firm announced on Sept. 18.