With space again generously provided by BDO, the CASH Coalition convened a New York Climate Week panel of member organizations – Acceso, Digital Green, One Acre Fund, Proximity Designs, and Root Capital – to explore how smallholder farmers are driving the transition to regenerative agriculture. The event showcased both the breadth of activities and the growing momentum behind smallholder-led climate solutions across the Coalition and the Global South.| 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