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A grant is compelling relative to debt for obvious reasons.
One theme that could be compelling is climate adaptation grants.
One program that was identified as part of our climate research is this Smallholder Grant Programs under GEF. They provide grants to officially registered Community Based Organisations (CBOs) or NGOs and the maximum grant is $50,000. It’s not clear if SHGs or FPOs would fall qualify as a CBO or if there is flexibility in expanding eligibility.
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While it may not be super interesting to farmers initially, the data would be held not by DG but a “data trust” or “data cooperative” where DG plays a steward role (until there is greater farmer ownership). We can look to then identify ways to leverage this farm activity data for additional use cases.
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