We Open-Sourced a Protocol to Fix How the Food Supply Chain Talks to Itself

Almost one billion people face food insecurity every year — not because the world doesn't produce enough food, but because the coordination infrastructure between producers and consumers is broken . Farmers don't know who needs what. Stores don't know what's available 2km away. Surplus rots while scarcity persists — sometimes in the same city block. We spent years building a prototype to solve this. Today we're publishing the protocol that powers it. 👉 djowda.com/difp — DIFP v0.1, Provisional Specification · CC-BY 4.0 · Free to implement What DIFP actually is DIFP (Djowda Interconnected Food Protocol) is a lightweight, open, spatial food coordination protocol. It defines: Participant identity — how food ecosystem actors identify themselves globally without a central registry Spatial addressing — how Earth's surface is divided into ~500m × 500m cells, each acting as a coordination zone Presence & discovery — how participants announce and find each other within and across cells The trade