CASH Coalition

We are excited to launch a search for an experienced and dynamic leader to work with our membership and board to inspire and drive the next phase of the CASH Coalition's growth. This is a unique opportunity to create climate action at scale and positively impact millions of smallholder farmers in the Global South. You will work with innovative and path-breaking organizations and social entrepreneurs in the smallholder agriculture space and create strategic partnerships that expand access to climate finance and impactful climate action. https://lnkd.in/eD5hgv3Z

Last year, we equipped farmers to earn $421 million in total new profits and assets—a 33% increase from 2022! 📈 With your help, we're working to ensure that the 4.8 million farmers we serve have big harvests, healthy families, and rich soils, so measuring our impact every year is a crucial part of our operations. Read all about our results and impact in 2023—from planting 74 million trees to doubling growth in Burundi— in our Annual Report here! 👇🏿

We are proud to work alongside numerous organizations to help amplify our impact on small-scale farmers across Zambia. By fostering these partnerships, we are able to promote conservation and support sustainable livelihoods for these farmers. Our collaboration with Acorn, among others, has been instrumental in driving this mission forward. Recently, ACORN produced a mini-documentary that highlights our partnership and the significant benefits it brings to farmers on the ground. #zambia #sustainabledevelopment #agroforestry https://lnkd.in/dYXpN5aK https://lnkd.in/dYXpN5aK

Great role for a coalition builder and thinker who wants to change the world. Take a look.

The CASH Coalition is privileged to work with innovative and impactful social enterprises and entrepreneurs. It is wonderful when they receive the recognition they deserve for positively impacting the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and the earth. 🥳 Congratulations to SEKEM Group, Helmy Abouleish, Justus Harm, Thoraya Seada, and their colleagues for winning the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in recognition of their "significant contributions to global food security, climate resilience, and ecosystem protection." 🌱 🇪🇬🌍

I’m very pleased to share this opportunity to lead the CASH Coalition! This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a multi-stakeholder initiative, drive meaningful and impactful work for the planet and smallholder livelihoods, and work with innovative organizations and social entrepreneurs with deep roots in smallholder and local communities. I have been fortunate to lead CASH through its start-up period and stand it up as an independent organization. Collaborating with like-minded and mission-driven colleagues is always thrilling. It is a privilege to do so in the service of overcoming barriers that prevent smallholders from accessing climate finance, solving problems that unlock regenerative and climate actions, and improving livelihoods. I believe the time is ripe for new leadership to steward the Coalition through its next phase of development. Please share this opportunity widely!

Fantastic new network, seeking an equally fantastic CEO. Great opportunity. Please spread the word.

#CoolRoleAlert Are you an experienced leader interested in ensuring that smallholder and indigenous farmers across the world can benefit from carbon markets and climate action? Are you convinced that local communities are an integral part of countering climate change, and should be rewarded for their actions? This role could be for you! The CASH coalition is seeking an Executive Director to continue its impactful work. Please share with your networks! #climateaction #carbonmarkets #agroforestry #smallholders #regenerative agriculture

Ezrah is proud to support the CASH Coalition and we would love to help them find a new Executive Director!

(Warning! Unofficial long post about #regenagric). Last week I went for an annual "cool stuff 1AF is doing" discovery trip to go deeper on our forest landscape restoration and regenerative agriculture (mainly CA) trials in Rwanda with Colin Christensen. Some of what we learnt from our amazing teams: 1. 💵 Delivering a more resilient and sustainable agricultural systems at scale is way more time consuming in the field, expensive (via high touch extension, trialing what works, bespoke design) and complex than conventional agriculture across smallholder mosaic landscapes. 2. 🗺 Context is king, what works for one farmer/agro-ecological zone won't work for another. We visited phase 2 client trials for cover crop/conservation agric practices in the highlands of Western Rwanda. We still haven't found a cover crop (a cover crop is crop planted for soil health only) that works for those climatic conditions with over 12 tested AND the casual labour farmers hired is often unable to do the more intensive hand weeding required to maintain 0 till (more time = more $). Those clients have experienced losses in yield over 3 years (on trial plot vs control) and an increase in labour costs. HOWEVER, trials report really successful yields in lowland, semi-arid regions (where CA traditionally works best). NB: Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea - not related 😉) is the most successful trial for cover crops so far outside of the highlands but the seed is extremely expensive (15% of a farmer's monthly income but its free for the trial) and looks a bit like a weed shading the maize (see pic) - which will make behaviour change really hard at scale (cleaner rows are thought to be more productive). 3. 💡 Localised R&D adapted to different contexts is therefore incredibly important before we become too prescriptive across landscapes. We visited our research station and learnt about exciting inoculant tests using locally developed bacteria strains from Rwandan sugar cane - inoculants might reduce some synthetic fertiliser use, if proven, but we don't know what will work and for which crops/soil types - hence all the buckets! 4. 🌳 Forest landscape restoration, i.e. more intensive on farm tree/shrub planting for bespoke contour (erosion control), boundary (wind-break), shade (for coffee), intercropping (staple yield benefits) - is a pilot which takes farmers through a boundary mapping and tree package selection process for their individual needs and best landscape restoration outcomes. The enrolment process is intensive and at best you can only enrol 2-3 farmers per day. We hope carbon can pay for some of this one day (trees take time to grow!), but its so tough to pre-finance and scale this without big/well trained field teams + sizeable and flexible philanthropic funding. I think we'll get there, but back to #1, it will requite many many multiples of climate finance💰for farmers and implementers to scale (beyond what the carbon markets can absorb).