{"id":13364,"date":"2025-09-08T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/?page_id=13364"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:57:33","slug":"cacao-tech-digitalni-revoluce-v-kakaovem-prumyslu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/projekty\/cacao-tech-digitalni-revoluce-v-kakaovem-prumyslu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cacao-Tech: The digital revolution in the cocoa industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project start:<\/strong>&nbsp;1. 9. 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Finish:<\/strong>&nbsp;30. 9. 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cacao-Tech is a sub-project of the EU project called DRG4FOOD, which aims to achieve trust in the data-driven food system by implementing Digital Responsibility Goals (DRG) for the food sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image001-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13365\" style=\"width:326px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image001-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image001-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image001-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image001-16x12.png 16w, https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image001.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cacao-Tech Project<em>&nbsp;is changing the rules of the game in the cocoa industry. It brings digital technology to where traditional practices have dominated for centuries, and shows that innovation can mean not only greater efficiency, but also fairer trade, less waste and greater trust between farmers and consumers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cacao-Tech project objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pilot project country<\/strong>: Ecuador<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Target group<\/strong>: small farmers, processors, consumers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Main partners<\/strong>: Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Pacha de Cacao (Ecuador), Wageningen Research (Netherlands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Technology<\/strong>: portable infrared scanners (NIRS), artificial intelligence, digital database for traceability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Target<\/strong>: reduce waste by up to 80%, increase transparency and ensure fairer compensation for farmers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Project specifics<\/strong>: led by 100 % women, focused on digital responsibility and data protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Involvement of KIT PEF \u010cZU in Prague<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department catalyzes the interdisciplinary engagement of the Cacao-Tech team in the joint design of a data-driven solution for value chain quality assessment and tracking and leads software experts to develop a prototype of a commercially viable data system. Cacao-Tech builds on FAIR principles in the field of data and cybersecurity with international relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project start: 1. 9. 2024 Project end: 30. 9. 2025 Cacao-Tech is a sub-project of the EU project DRG4FOOD, which aims to achieve trust in a data-driven food system by implementing Digital Responsibility Goals (DRG) for the food sector. The Cacao-Tech project is changing the rules of the game in the cocoa industry. It brings digital technologies where traditional practices have dominated for centuries, and shows that innovation can mean not only higher efficiency, but also fairer trade, less waste and greater trust between farmers and consumers. Cacao-Tech project objectives Involvement of KIT PEF \u010cZL in Prague The department in the project catalyzes the interdisciplinary involvement of the Cacao-Tech team in the joint design of a data-driven solution for assessing the quality of the value chain<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"\u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nka","author_link":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/zpravy-akce-prednasky\/author\/xpros019studenti-czu-cz\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Zah\u00e1jen\u00ed projektu:&nbsp;1. 9. 2024 Ukon\u010den\u00ed projektu:&nbsp;30. 9. 2025 Cacao-Tech je subprojekt projektu EU s&nbsp;n\u00e1zvem DRG4FOOD, kter\u00fd je zam\u011b\u0159en\u00fd na dosa\u017een\u00ed d\u016fv\u011bry v datov\u011b orientovan\u00fd potravinov\u00fd syst\u00e9m implementac\u00ed c\u00edl\u016f digit\u00e1ln\u00ed odpov\u011bdnosti (DRG) pro potravin\u00e1\u0159sk\u00fd sektor. Projekt Cacao-Tech&nbsp;m\u011bn\u00ed pravidla hry v kakaov\u00e9m pr\u016fmyslu. P\u0159in\u00e1\u0161\u00ed digit\u00e1ln\u00ed technologie tam, kde po stalet\u00ed dominovaly tradi\u010dn\u00ed postupy, a ukazuje, \u017ee inovace&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13364\/revisions\/13367"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kit.pef.czu.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}