Calling on global Foodtech startups and entrepreneurs to revolutionize Agri-Food in Northwest Cambodia
If you’re a Foodtech startup with disruptive technology and want to contribute to a global impact project, don’t miss this opportunity and submit your application now!
Cambodia's growth and global competitiveness hinge on enhancing processing and adding value to its agricultural products. The nation must embrace external technologies and innovations from a global perspective and integrate them into local companies. This approach promises to unlock new opportunities and drive economic progress in Cambodia.
JOIN US IN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF CAMBODIA’S AGRI-FOOD SECTOR AND CONTRIBUTE TO ITS GROWTH AND GLOBAL IMPACT
Transforming Tropical Fruit Production in Cambodia
Technologies:
Shelf-life extension technologies
Innovative technologies in the tropical fruits production and processing
B2B Marketplaces for agricultural products
The challenge covers essential factors such as developing new solutions for storage & delivery and quality assurance of tropical fruits, especially mangos and bananas, to improve the current agricultural production in crops and unlock new international market opportunities.
Boosting agri-food global business relations in Cambodia
Technologies:
B2B global marketplaces
Innovative technologies to improve traceability in the agri-food sector
New digital technologies that serve to improve connection between farmers, industry and buyers
Platforms to streamline distribution channels
Business intelligence tools
The challenge seeks to find new methodologies to promote trade exchanges and the strengthening of relations between producers, industry and the world market with the aim of increasing Cambodia's competitiveness in the agri-food sector.
Expanding Cambodia’s portfolio of agri-food premium products
Technologies:
New cultivation techniques
New processing techniques
New high value crops cultivation and processing methods
This area of interest focuses on the introduction of high value-added products achieved through advanced food processing techniques and specialised cultivation of high-value crops, such as vanilla.
Are you the one?
Showcase your solutions in front of top Cambodia’s corporations
Contribute to the growth of Cambodia’s agri-food sector
Implement your solution in an Asian country and step into a promising market that is outpacing regional growth and is projected by the IMF to become Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economy by 2025
THE PROCESS
1
OPEN CALL
November 2023
2
INTERVIEWS
Nov. - Jan. 2024
3
SELECTION
February 2024
4
SHOWCASE
March 2024
About us.
In the northwest of Cambodia, the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) implements a program to improve the competitiveness of national enterprises (ICONE). Over the last 20 years, the Kingdom of Cambodia has achieved continuously high rates of economic growth, primarily driven by the textile, construction, tourism and agriculture sectors. In order to press ahead with its modernisation and diversification plans, Cambodia aims to open up new business sectors, including food production, agricultural processing, and light industry. The ICONE program strategically supports enterprises in the northwest of Cambodia to enhance their productivity, efficiency, and capacity to innovate.
Eatable Adventures, a leading food technology accelerator, identifies and supports the world's most innovative and disruptive food startups, helping them to grow in the global marketplace. Aiming to act on the food front and drive the adoption of more sustainable and efficient business models under the banner of smarter use of technology, Eatable Adventures has over 40 annual corporate programmes, a community of over 25,000 founders and a deal flow of 3,000 analysed foodtech projects in 2022. Promoting a synergy between innovation, ethics and sustainability, the company works to promote, develop and democratise technologies in the agri-food sector, in order to build the food system of tomorrow: sustainable, efficient, healthy and guaranteeing food security on a global scale.
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