Key Takeaways:
- Rethink Events is hosting the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in Mexico City on October 29-30, 2024.
- The summit aims to accelerate climate-smart agri-food innovation and investment across the region.
- Mexico’s agri-food sector, a leading producer of high-value crops and livestock, faces challenges from drought and desertification.
- The event will highlight agtech solutions for both large-scale and smallholder farms and provide opportunities for partnerships and investments.
Introduction of the Summit
Rethink Events, a William Reed company, is set to host the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in Mexico City on October 29-30, 2024. This event aims to accelerate climate-smart agri-food innovation and investment across the region, extending the globally recognized portfolio of World Agri-Tech summits held in London, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Dubai.
Mexico’s Agricultural Significance
Mexico is a world-leading producer of high-value fruits, vegetables, grains, and livestock, with a gross production value forecasted to reach $57 billion in 2024. The country’s growing domestic and export demands, coupled with challenges such as drought and desertification, necessitate new technologies to support efficient and sustainable farming practices.
Focus of the Summit
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in Mexico City will provide insights into various agtech solutions aimed at both large-scale and smallholder farms. Key areas of focus will include smart irrigation and digital platforms, opportunities in biological crop protection, innovations in controlled environment horticulture, and the transition to regenerative agriculture practices.
Opportunities for Investment and Partnership
The summit will showcase emerging agtech investment opportunities in Mexico, welcoming international agribusinesses, F&B brands, technology providers, investors, and start-ups to connect and forge partnerships with Mexico’s rapidly growing agri-food ecosystem.
Statements from Leadership
Jennie Moss, Founder & Managing Director at Rethink Events, expressed excitement about the event. “We are delighted to bring the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit to Mexico City as it’s a key market for agri-food investment, with close ties to the USA,” Moss said. “Farmers face huge challenges to optimize crop yields, address water scarcity, and seize new opportunities for biological crop protection. The summit is a fantastic opportunity to hear from a cross-section of industry leaders and discover new technologies that will help scale agricultural production and reduce pressure on farmers.”
Key Topics of Discussion
The two-day program will explore a range of critical topics, including:
- Empowering Smallholders: Adapting agtech to meet farmers’ needs.
- Regenerative Agriculture: Enabling adoption of climate-smart solutions.
- Financial Inclusion: Facilitating capital access through agri-fintech.
- Optimizing Water Use: Implementing smart irrigation for drought resilience.
- Biological Inputs: Capitalizing on market growth in biological crop protection.
- Digitalizing Mexican Ag: Overcoming barriers to precision farming practices.
- Controlled Environment Horticulture: Delivering year-round fresh produce.
- Livestock and Dairy: Improving productivity throughout the dairy value chain.
- AgTech Investment in Mexico: Boosting venture and equity funding for start-ups.
- Start-Up Pitches: Showcasing the best of Mexico’s agtech innovators.
