About

Empowering Communities & Advancing Climate Action

The CASH Coalition is a collaborative initiative comprised of thirteen mission-driven organizations with decades of experience supporting vulnerable farming and forest communities in the Global South.

We work directly with 9 million land managers in smallholder, indigenous, and local communities who collectively steward 16 million hectares of land. We aim to make regenerative agriculture and climate solutions profitable for smallholders and strengthen farmers’ participation in climate financing markets.

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We work to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers and local communities in the Global South.

The Coalition works to accelerate the smallholder transition to regenerative agriculture and sustainable land management to enhance resilience and livelihoods while advancing local ecosystem restoration and climate change mitigation. We focus on creating enabling conditions that are challenging for individual organizations to address in isolation and impossible for farmers to shift. We support innovative and trusted organizations that serve farmers across diverse contexts and who work to create value for people (families), nature (local ecosystems, soil, biodiversity), and climate (carbon removal, emissions reduction).

We implement our work aligned with four pillars: 

CASH identifies and shares knowledge and best practices regarding existing technologies, practices, financing arrangements, incentive structures, behavior change and adoption, costs and benefits, and scaling strategies to accelerate a smallholder regenerative transition. We are actively developing a repository of regenerative content focused on smallholder agriculture to i) accelerate awareness and uptake across the Coalition; ii) support members, the Coalition, and eventually the field-at-large to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools as a strategy to scale smallholder farmer access to quality, locally relevant, regenerative advice. The Coalition encourages and facilitates peer-to-peer learning through monthly sessions in which members share insights from practical experience and research. 

We provide technical assistance, information, and education to our members and local partners to amplify the voices of smallholder farmers and increase their ability to derive benefits from climate finance and PES. 

We expand existing avenues for participation, create new entry points to climate financing arrangements, and transform climate finance by – advocating for reforms to existing carbon markets, standards, and relevant regulatory instruments to ensure that markets and instruments work for smallholders and recognize and value smallholder nature-based solutions and ecosystem services. We identify ways for smallholders to tap into non-carbon climate finance.  We are developing a portfolio of projects to advance these objectives, identify and overcome practical barriers inhibiting smallholder projects from accessing carbon and other climate finance, and inform learning and advocacy to promote systems change.

We catalyze the development and execution of ground-up research to build business models and use cases demonstrating the viability of smallholder regenerative and climate actions. We leverage this learning to inform advocacy, project development, and further research.

Supporters

We are privileged to draw support from dynamic funders and philanthropists. The Tawingo Fund, Autodesk Foundation, and the Montpelier Foundation collectively and generously covered our initial start-up costs. The Skoll Foundation has generously provided anchor funding over two years. King Philanthropies, Ezrah Trust, Vitol Foundation, and Imago Dei have provided additional support to fund our operations. 

If you are interested in supporting our work, please contact us.

Leadership

The CASH Coalition’s leadership group consists of the senior leader of each core member organization.

The leadership group has elected an Executive Committee (EC). The EC meets weekly and pulls in other members or external partners as necessary. It is comprised of: 

Mailing Address: 151 Middlesex Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA

Contact: admin@cashcoalition.earth