📣We're at #SXSW2018 👋 Tempest van Schaik PhD will moderate & speak about SoilCards and #agritech on Mon 12.03 & Ana Florescu will talk about good problems for #science ventures on Wed 14.03 🚀 Come join us!

.Tim O'Reilly at #SXSW2018 describing how technology will shape our future. Glad to see how often food & agriculture comes up in diverse tech talks

Another farming reference at #SXSW2018. Michael Dell of Dell talks about partnership with AeroFarms who increased productivity of farming herbs ~300 fold using vertical farming, using drastically less water

The @SXSW panel on how #AI can solve global #hunger discusses diverse use cases: water quality, crop assessment, food choices. #SXSW

At #sxsw trade show: Indonesian startup Mycotech produces a woodchip-type board, but instead of cutting down trees, uses mushroom mycelia. = Sustainable building materials

🌱 Hilton Austin, Salon K, 12:30pm: From #machineLearning to paper #microfluidics – join our panel SXSW on tech for the 1.5 billion small-scale farmers below the poverty line. Speakers from SoilCards @we_farm SunCulture Apollo Agriculture #SXSW #agritech schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP…

1.5bn smallholder farmers living below the poverty line. How might we provide them with precision, sustainable, higher yield agriculture? 70% of the world's food is created by smallholders. The team at SoilCards (Tempest van Schaik PhD Science Practice) have some ideas. #sxsw

.Wefarm are creating a platform to help small-holder farmers improve their yields, access farming knowledge, sell produce, and access products - from loans to seeds #sxsw #Agritech

Tech for small farmers, get’s too little attention, but it is so practical and important. Great example is SoilCards #SXSW18

From paper & plastic to an easy to read & easy to use soil test for smallholder farmers. Tempest van Schaik PhD introduces SoilCards at #SXSW #agritech 🌱

.Apollo Agriculture are using #machinelearning to translate satellite data into more insightful farmer profiles & provide better support for #smallholder farmers in Kenya. #agritech #sxsw #ml

Q: If you had a magic wand to solve one problem in #smallholder farming in developing countries, what would you solve? #sxsw panel answers: Better weather prediction. Better access to finance for farmes. Better location data. And funding for @SoilCards ;)

Now listening to a #sxsw panel on the opposite end of the spectrum from SoilCards: the highest-tech American farms: 7500 acres of NDVI photos, leaf testing, gene editing, interactive maps of farm status, drones, tracking device, yield forecasting. Still need soil testing though!

SoilCards just got a shoutout on this Science Practice #sxsw panel as example of transferring technology from one domain to another: originally microfluidics technology was developed in healthcare but we have applied it to agriculture

African #Agtech Market Map: 99 Technologies Changing the Future of #Agriculture in #Africa agfundernews.com/african-agtech…

We are looking to support outstanding female PhD students involved in crop agricultural research in African Universities to participate in our world-class workshop taking place at the University of Cambridge in Sept. 2018. APPLY here jrbiotekfoundation.org/cambridge-lab-… & help spread the word

Started as speculative design project, became #TEDx #SXSW talks, a workshop at Royal College of Art & Cambridge University, nearly became an educational kit & then blood test, settled on ultra affordable #soil test kit. Check out my write-up of @SoilCards field-trip to #Kenya: science-practice.com/blog/2018/02/2… x.com/Dr_Tempest/sta…