Notes from July 2020
Strand is focused on building technology platforms for conservation development and sustainable agriculture. Strand has built the India Biodiversity Portal which is a participatory and collaborative platform for aggregating biodiversity information on India. The platform technology is open source, and all data is provided as open data.
Strand has been working on triple certification platform; including traceability; eco-certification and fair trade certification. This project is in collaboration with CIRAD, and is focused on building the platform for certification for coffee cultivation in Uganda with NUCAFE, a producer cooperative in Uganda.
It may be worthwhile to collaborate on the certification process for better transparency and enabling better value and access of small growers to organic markets.
The idea of building a generic platform for implementing the Participatory Guarantee System for organic certification may be a good project to work on with linkages with markets though an e-com platform.
An interest in local varieties and cultivars of food plants and ec=ncouraging it conservation and sustenance will also be a good area to engage.