Compiling talking points / references / charts we can use for a concept note / one-pager
Small scale producers face significant challenges on the front-lines of climate change.
They are also landscape stewards whose actions can deliver climate benefits including carbon sequestration, efficient water usage, biodiversity preservation while meeting our food security needs.
While farmer groups can empower small scale producers to overcome their diseconomies of scale, they universally struggle with quick access to low-cost capital which inhibits their growth.
Farmer groups know what investments they need to make in order to enhance their climate resilience and deliver value to their farmer members. Digital Green is launching a platform for farmer groups to share their needs and connect with funders who want to support them.
Timely grants can be catalytic and provide groups a much needed boost that accelerates their maturity and sets them on a path to unlock additional opportunities like government subsidy programs and commercial banks / capital markets.
“Our emerging farmer organization approach has three core components
(1) building open source, accessible, farmer-centered tools for farmer groups that help them easily capture and use data with their members informed consent
(2) building the capacity of data officers as trusted stewards of farmer data and capacity builders of their peer members
(3) testing a more direct, but decentralized, investing channel targeting farmers organizations and supporting their climate resilience. This last component is designed to both incentivize greater focus on growing their data assets and commit resources that will tangibly impact their commitment to act collectively.
These three things: a robust data asset, strong farmers organization digital capacity, and growing collective agency could shift the current paradigm. From an agtech ecosystem powered by the extraction and centralization of smallholder data by others to a farmer-driven data ecosystem where the farmer organization becomes a powerful data aggregator and advocate for their members' needs and rights”
https://climatetechvc.substack.com/p/-ipcc-6-running-out-of-time-97?s=w
Takeaway: There is an huge opportunity and unmet need