Co-Farming: Exploring a Digital Platform for Agri-Food SMEs

Small and mid-sized farmers—even those organised in local co-operatives—often lack integrated digital tools for multi-channel sales, coordinated logistics, leveraging sustainability data, plugging into FinTech, etc. This project aims to explore how an API-ready integrative digital platform could fill that gap. The concept draws on service-system transformation, platform ecosystems, sustainable supply chains, and cooperative governance.

Expertise & roles

  • Digital platform / API architecture – assess technical feasibility; draft minimal viable model
  • Supply-chain / operations – analyse logistics and cost-sharing opportunities
  • Marketing & consumer behaviour – explore market-matching and provenance-premium potential
  • Cooperative governance / institutional logics – shape ownership and incentive structures
  • Legal & policy (EU Data Act, ag-data sovereignty) – ensure compliance and farmers’ data rights
  • Sustainability metrics / carbon accounting – link regenerative practices to verifiable claims

 

 

 

 
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