New York Climate Week 2024 – No Smallholders Left Behind: Empowering livelihoods & action through climate finance 

This breakfast meeting will focus on identifying incentives that enable smallholder agroforestry projects to scale through access to carbon markets. CASH is developing a portfolio of smallholder-based carbon projects and has developed a sophisticated financial model to understand key variables and tipping points that impact the viability of smallholder agroforestry projects.

Drawing on insights from our agroforestry model, on-the-ground perspectives accrued through decades of support for smallholder livelihoods, and insights from financiers and project developers, we look forward to a rich discussion and making new connections.

Discussion participants will include: Michael Jenkins (President and CEO of Forest Trends), Jack Kimani (Co-Founder, CAP-A), Lakshmi Viswanathan (Carbon and Climate Finance Lead, CASH Coalition), John Mundy (Director of Global Partnerships, One Acre Fund), Emma van de Ven (Co-Founder, Acorn Rabobank), and Ricardo Bayon (Co-Founder, Encourage Capital).

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