Bundle: Agriculture
{"type": "project", "title": "Bundle: Agriculture", "logoImg": "bafkreihxweu7r6m6kkhkfo7yqqfzfs2ln3mqaooac2g5h674xc6y55awri", "website": "https://tinyurl.com/RegenerativeAgricultureBundle", "bannerImg": "bafybeiclpjhugmwdlc27id7nkf3rnn7fliurzb7ylnca4gkx57bic5o2pq", "createdAt": 1673479399631, "credentials": {}, "description": "🌱 This grant bundles 8 initiatives devoted to transforming agriculture to provide healthy food, water, material, and medicinal security to communities while regenerating working lands for improved carbon and water cycling to further encourage biodiversity and general ecosystem functions. 🌱 \n\n🚜  Agriculture is a primary driver of land and water degradation globally while contributing significantly to global GHG emissions (>10%). Food is essential for a community’s well-being and is considered a matter of national security by modern nation-states. \n\n💐  Regenerative agriculture initiatives recognize the fragility of “modern” agriculture. They argue that resilient communities achieve food, water, material, and medicinal security by restoring health to their surroundings and valuing ecosystem functions. It generally allows us to decolonize our minds that traditionally associate farming with mass monoculture to instead associate it with multiple and diverse species (wild, livestock, vegetative, & microbiome…) contributing to the resilience of a whole ecosystem. \n\n🌎  A global decentralized grants platform like Gitcoin offers a means for each of us to reclaim agency over the food system that we rely on. Our communities become enabled to supply shared needs in a mutualistic way. Let us be empowered and demonstrate the potential of quadratic funding to allocate, prioritize, as well as support transformative change to agriculture across scales. \n\n☀️ The initiatives represented by this bundle are collaborating with local communities and indigenous organizations while providing access to knowledge about regenerative agriculture as well as access to the tools for farmers. Creating these impacts in Kenya, Colombia, India, Croatia & the United States with disparate aims but a common mission to demonstrate and expand the role of free and open-source software in public goods funding.\n\nIf you would like to know more about the individual projects that have been gathered in this bundle, check below!\n\n☕️  Coffee Carbon Collective, @CoffeeCarbonCo: The project supports coffee farmers in their transition to regenerative agriculture by providing agronomic guidance and rewarding them for the implementation of new practices. Coffee Impact Collective creates an ecosystem that provides multiple services and opportunities for farmers, allowing them to become a part of a decentralized marketplace where “regenerated” coffee is traded along with eco credits (like carbon, biodiversity, water quality, social impact, and eco-tourism), not separately. First pilots are starting with farmers and cooperatives in Colombia.\n\n🌸  Kanga Gardens, @Kangra_Gardens: The Kangra Gardens are a place for people to express gratitude and give back to the earth by respecting and learning from it. The purpose of the Kangra Botanical Garden, which is a part of Kula, is to regenerate the local ecosystem, promote biodiversity conservation, support community health, build towards food sovereignty and nutrition, and engage people in connecting with the environment. The garden uses Ayurvedic medicine production and syntropic farming to achieve these goals facilitated through a Bioregional Learning Center. The grant for Kangra Gardens aims to fund new as well as current contributors and the development of open-source documentation to share with the global community.\n\n💧 Watercycle, @friedmanspace: Watercycle is developing an open-source, low-cost water structuring device to improve crop yields and accelerate natural carbon sequestration. Water structuring is the process of altering the structure of water to optimize its ability to support life. The benefits of water structuring in agriculture include improved soil structure, increased plant growth and yield, and reduced water usage.\n\n🏝️ Ogallala.Life, @ogallalalife: We are a not-for-profit devoted to learning, exploring, developing & deploying web3 tools for landscape rehydration on and around the US high plains aquifer system. Our mission is to prove out market incentives for improved water recharge & retention - our communities place a tremendously high value on water security and ReFi offers novel mechanisms to invest in surrounding landscapes & watersheds. We’ve launched pilot projects along the Canadian River breaks to explore leaky weirs, riparian restoration, and similar interventions, & their impact on the water budget, biodiversity, carbon & climate. Our projects help facilitate the maturation of decentralized science applied towards regenerative aims through our active collaboration with dMeter, a DAO tasked to build tools for decentralized digital measure recordation & validation in natural capital context including but not limited to PES markets.\n\n👨🏾‍🌾  Regrò, @projectregro: At Regrò farmers, gardeners and artists share their journeys about Regenerative Agriculture and Regenerative Finance. Under the increasing climate emergency pressure, the Regrò project aims to connect land owners, farmers, and growers, interested in sharing resources to build resilient agroecological systems through Regenerative and Conservation Agriculture, Permaculture, and non-invasive practices.\n\n🌳  Ayowecca Uganda, @ayowecca_uganda: A community-founded organization working on nature-based solutions, Wetlands and peatland ecosystem restoration has been our focus. Together with the local community, we are restoring encroached wetlands and protecting those that already exist. Our strategy involves agroforestry and afforestation. We are promoting agroforestry, by giving farmers fruit trees to plant beside their crops to protect the degraded landscape, promote food security and raise food production. Climate change adaptation and mitigation are our primary goals in promoting agroforestry/regenerative agriculture and permaculture. The effects of climate change on agricultural communities can be lessened by planting trees in agricultural systems. Growing the number of trees on agricultural land decreases tree cutting and boosts carbon sinks.\n\n 📡  dMRV Network, @dmrvnetwork: dMRV network puts the tools necessary in the hands of small-scale farmers and other marginalized communities so that they have the opportunity to collect and submit valuable ecological data for fair compensation. dMRV network is a decentralized organization of scientists, project developers, farmers, and regenerators that contributes to open source systems that allow for decentralized data collection correlation of ecological data into ecological credits and/or payments. The primary goal of dMRV Network is to create a guide for communities to identify the best practices, tools, and resources for maximizing value and ecological health via ecological service payments and/or credits.\n\n🌱 The WeSeed Project @weseedrefi: The WeSeed Project is a unique initiative that aims to address global food insecurity challenges through the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies. The project seeks to provide education and training in these areas to underserved communities, empowering them to actively participate in regenerative microeconomics and create long-term systemic change.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}}