Points of Progress: Fair trade coffee thanks to blockchain, and more

A coffee roastery is using blockchain to track its bean supply and help farmers keep profits.The Moyee brand assigns its coffee farmers digital IDs, which allows buyers to track where their coffee is from and how much the farmers were paid for it via blockchain – a permanent digital record. Using blockchain to track produce may soon be applied similarly in Caribbean nations, where many fruits are grown. Scientists found a new way to pull CO2  from the air and turn it into solid coal. In a report, an international team of scientists based in Australia detailed a groundbreaking carbon sequestration method.

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