Some food manufacturers have been sued for using “all natural” labels on products that contain genetically modified ingredients. Traceability to farmer including soil type is an emerging need. Vermont has passed a law that requires foods containing GMO ingredients to be labeled as such, and more than 20 other states are considering mandatory labeling of […]
Food inflation has reached a new dimension of strife when people choose to manufacture with horrible and toxic substitutes in order to provide food to the masses. The result is cautious consumers on the look out for local food choices that they can trace themselves (in their car) or know as much as possible about […]
The following is a list of the basic steps in starting a specialty rural food business. While each specialty food business is unique and subject to specific product requirements, the list outlines the overall process. The steps are grouped by topic, and each topic affects the others: your product type and packaging affect your labels; […]
Current agricultural practices are diminishing our ability to produce sustainable food in the future. Hence, swallowing food today is also swallowing food that won’t be available in the future. However, what you swallow today sends a signal to the marketplace to produce more of what you swallow. However, the only way consumers can know about […]
Core principles on fair business relations are a core feature of Rurapp Projects. The goal to develop remote rural functioning food supply chain to integrated markets worldwide. The core of any Rurapp project includes organizations along the entire food supply chain including farmers, industry processors, brand manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, large and smaller businesses. The […]
RURAPP M2M is a think tank, publisher and business incubator of rural trade & traceability strategies and models lead by an advisory board of experienced agricultural product farmer value chains. The Advisory Board members have active projects within the Rurapp Architecture and are actively adjusting their own business systems to seamlessly collaborate with the Rurapp […]
Rurapp Inc has taken the time to harness cutting-edge technological understanding, human ingenuity and the rich history of farmers working in tandem with the wisdom of natural ecosystems. Rurapp trade stations plan to boost rural farm trade whilst being run with waste from the quality control process. Today there are farmers and agricultural scientists in […]
Although both organic and industrial agriculture have their strengths and weaknesses, there are certain problems with industrial agriculture that necessitate the need to combine both methods. Organic agriculture can be just as productive as non-organic agriculture. It has been found that “if converted to organic production, the low-intensity agriculture present in much of the developing […]
RurApp an independent company in Phoenix, Arizona has been funding an intriguing topic. RurApp standing for Rural App has conducted ten years of research into the design for the future of rural trade & traceability for farmers and their value networks. RurApp hallmarked research within three categories: “Farmer-Member-Driven verification and Authentication of the Rural Trade […]
Are you a food or health brand interested in working with farmers directly to create a wide array of new clean food products supplied using advanced farm to fork traceability reporting technology. The quest to find and support clean food regions world wide is a core Rurapp business function. The more loving and natural environment […]
