Entries open for 100+ Accelerator Program for Sustainable Agriculture

Subchallenges

• Farmer Training, Engagement & Support
• Crop Quality & Productivity & Carbon Capture
• Other/New Innovations Testing & Analysis

Top Priorities

• Farmer Training, Engagement & Support:
  • Systems and tools to strengthen farmers’ commercial decision-making, and enable alliances and information sharing among farmers.
• Crop Quality & Productivity & Carbon Capture:
  • Integrated solution that enables the early identification, prediction, and prevention of plant diseases and pest outbreaks — using remote sensing, in-field sensors, and benign pest control systems — to alert farmers to emerging threats and guide precise, timely, and environmentally responsible mitigation actions
  • Identification, prediction, and prevention of plant diseases and pests, including alert systems for changing disease pressure and recommended mitigation actions and benign pest control systems
  • Drought-resistant and heat-tolerant agriculture production systems, including varieties with deep root systems and reduced evapotranspiration.
  • Low-carbon agricultural inputs or input optimization, with high adoption and low churn among farmers. Next-Generation Green Fertilizers (sustainable alternatives with reduced environmental impact, focusing on enhanced nutrient efficiency).
  • Tools and technologies to improve harvest and post-harvest processes, enhancing crop quality, farmer productivity, and predicting quality parameters (e.g., DON, protein) and yield.
• Other/New Innovations Testing & Analysis:
  • Crop by-product reuse and valorization, helping farmers generate new revenue streams from agricultural waste or secondary outputs and/or turn the upcycled waste stream as valued ingredients.

Areas of Interest

• Farmer Training, Engagement & Support:
  • Low-carbon rice farming solutions.
  • Carbon credit generation solutions from current agro and water programs.
• Crop Quality & Productivity & Carbon Capture:
  • Crop damage prevention or mitigation during extreme or erratic weather events.
  • Efficient water use in agriculture and irrigation systems (e.g., drip and sprinkler), with tools to track improvements in water usage.
  • Digital phenotyping technologies to improve selection of improved crop varieties.
  • Solutions for improved orange pulp quality and yield.
  • Water status monitoring in soil and trees (for orchards related production) to give guidance to farmer on irrigation practices in real-time
  • Rapid low-cost farm baselining and soil testing
  • Solutions to harmonize climate action progress tracking and monitoring systems in line with market regulations
  • Low-carbon fertilizer solutions: such as organic fertilizers, bio-fertilizers, etc.
• Other/New Innovations Testing & Analysis:
  • Solutions to guarantee soy and/or corn for animal feed come from non-deforested area
  • Innovative strategies to support milk producers achieve better prices and enhancing productivity in milk prices
  • Innovative technologies targeting grassland management efficiency plus fertilizer/concentrate reduction, leading to improved practices
  • Innovative solution to reduce storage of manure and the application of manure potentially leading to improved utilization of the manure
  • Decision making tool to increase dairy cow longevity, reduce costs and co2 footprint
  • Solution to unlock methane reduction from enteric fermentation in pasture-based dairy farming systems
  • Regen ag: Tools and technologies to reduce the transition time of regen ag practices, returning farms to pre-regen ag profitability.

Benefits

• The 100+ Accelerator will provide support, guidance and access to potential funding through:
  • Pilot customer opportunities with the six corporate partners:
    • AB InBev, The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Mondelez International, and Unilever (including the potential to scale company-wide)
  • Active mentorship, training, and programming in product development, go-to-market, operations, sales, and more
  • Top mentor network of scientists, academics, domain experts, venture capitalists, corporate sustainability leaders, etc.
  • Potential funding from Partner Companies and their networks

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to all. Challenges were developed with input from subject matter experts from their partner companies around the world to make sure they are focused on local issues that need to be addressed. They are seeking startups from around the world to answer the challenges and are eager to identify technologies and best practices that can be shared across their businesses and beyond.

For more information, visit Anheuser-Busch InBev.