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 Fit Food and Agriculture: The financial implications of mitigating agriculture and land use change emissions for businesses” jointly put out by The Food and Land Use Coalition, The We Mean Business Coalition, and The World4 Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Drawdown Food, a new initiative from Project Drawdown was launched in April to “advance science and share insights at the intersection of food, agriculture, land use, and climate change.”
This Global Development Incubator Report is an resource on making coalitions work and collaboration rich and productive.
Lija Farnham of Bridgespan attended the CASH stakeholder meeting in Oxford and shared the following resources on field catalysts with Jonathan:
- Field Building for Population Level Change and the accompanying Field Diagnostic Tool : In 2020 Bridgespan published this report with key findings on the “What” and “How” of field building toward equitable systems change and population-level results, and philanthropy’s role in this work. This report includes a field progression framework (how fields move toward impact at scale), five observable characteristics of fields, and opportunities for philanthropy – plus lots of examples. Field catalysts/systems orchestrators are essential forms of field “infrastructure” as described in this research – and many find these frameworks and examples helpful grounding for their work and impact measurement approaches.
- Funding Field Catalysts from Origins to Revolutionizing the World: In partnership with Skoll, Bridgespan studied how field catalysts/systems orchestrators come to be, the unique challenges they face, and how philanthropy can fuel their success as drivers of systemic change.
Field Catalyst Origin Stories: Lessons for Systems-Change Leaders: Accompanying piece specifically for field catalyst leaders - How Philanthropy Can Support Systems-Change Leaders: In a 2021 feature article Bridgespan took a deeper look at the roles and assets field catalysts/systems orchestrators leverage, and elaborate on criteria and principles funders can use.