AgUnity
Papua New Guinea
AgUnity is a global technology platform, available on mobile smartphones, tablets and desktop applications, works toward UN Sustainable Development Goals. The platform is an ethical, cost-effective and accountable blockchain-based solution, that enables secure transactions through the whole supply chain, that addresses poor connectivity and lack of digital literacy. It helps farmers to get a fair price for their crops. AgUnity benefits to smallholder farmers include 1) Farmers are able to pay and be paid with their smartphone and remotely contact with other smallholders to help with organising crop rotation as well as preventing an oversupply of the same product 2) It facilitates the creation of cooperatives, the sharing of resources and means of productions 3) traceability of food and in quality control 4) Communication between producers and consumers is faster and 5) Fewer intermediaries means that farmers can receive a higher share of the profit, means a shorter storage time, better freshness, improved food safety and, finally, less waste and subsequent loss of income.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm management services
Digital marketing and trading
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
AgUnity Pty Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over PNG
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes