We’ve updated — and refreshed the look of — our Learning Hub with two learning sessions that dig deep into real-world challenges and innovations in smallholder climate action:| CASH Coalition
Gender & Land Rights: Unlocking Access to Climate Finance| CASH Coalition
The CASH Coalition is excited about promising nascent evidence supporting the use of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) in a smallholder context to increase soil health and yields and remove carbon. […]| CASH Coalition
COP29 must appreciate and elevate the lived experience and climate agency of smallholder farmers for real world progress on climate change. Playing out against a backdrop of significant geopolitical developments […]| CASH Coalition
Participation by the CASH Coalition and its members was prominent in bringing smallholder farmers’ perspectives to several sessions and enhancing discussions at SOCAP24 (October 28–30, 2024). Heiner Baumann, Executive Director […]| CASH Coalition
Root Capital is 25 years old, and they are rightfully celebrating their impact. Read this unfolding series of stories . Congratulations to Forest Trends for publishing another groundbreaking resource, the Global Carbon Markets […]| CASH Coalition
The Rockefeller Foundation, has published a comprehensive report on Financing for Regenerative Agriculture. On email, John Mundy (OAF) described it as “an excellent report and one of the few I’ve read […]| CASH Coalition
Thank you to Mike Jenkins (Forest Trends) for flagging the following fascinating article from Wired on “The Rise of the Carbon Farmer”. Lizzie Teague (Root Capital) flagged this interesting report, “Future […]| CASH Coalition
Lizzie Teague gave excellent analysis and input on the EUDR to Thin Ink (a substack on “Food Climate and Where they Meet”. CASH’s oped on the EUDR also received a shoutout (left). Eric […]| CASH Coalition
Climate finance is a powerful tool for addressing climate change and supporting rural livelihoods. Yet, despite the vulnerability of smallholder livelihoods on the frontline of climate change, the critical role of smallholder farmers in producing food in the Global South, and the significant contribution they can make to advancing climate solutions, climate finance has largely […]| CASH Coalition
Communities in the Global South are often perceived as passive victims of the North’s development who will be pushed further into poverty by climate change. In this worldview, smallholder and forest communities lack the agency and resources to take action, except as climate refugees. This narrative is disempowering and perpetuates a worldview in which smallholder farmers and forest communities are grateful beneficiaries of Northern actions.| CASH Coalition