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A shipping chokepoint half a world away can still decide whether a farmer eats this season. In this session, Francisco traced how the Strait of Hormuz crisis rippled through farmer livelihoods and food systems most people never connect to geopolitics.

COP30 came and went, and smallholder advocacy didn't stop with it. In this peer-to-peer session, we learned more about what the Coalition's advocacy in Belém actually landed, what fell flat, and where that work headed next.

A forecast that's off by a day can cost a farmer the whole season. In this peer-to-peer session, Andrew, Anjaney, and Madhav showed how AI-powered forecasting got farmers accurate, localized information in time to act on it.

The voluntary carbon market moves fast, and what worked last year might not work this year. In this peer-to-peer session, Alex and Charlotte broke down what the 2025 data meant for smallholder-focused carbon projects.

Free, Prior, and Informed Consent gets talked about a lot and done well rarely. In this peer-to-peer session, Chileshe, Juan, and Marcio broke down what FPIC actually looked like on the ground, and what it took to get right before projects moved forward.

Funders and buyers don't take impact claims on faith anymore. In this peer-to-peer session, Pamela and Seong Hah walked through the monitoring and evaluation that made carbon and climate finance claims hold up to scrutiny.

Enhanced rock weathering looks great in a lab. Getting it onto a smallholder's field is a different problem entirely. In this peer-to-peer session, Caitlin, Shantanu, and Wiekert compared notes on what it actually took to make it work, from logistics to farmer adoption to measuring the carbon removed.

Regenerative claims are easy to make and harder to prove. In this session, Claire shared hard numbers from on-the-ground trials, what moved the needle on yields and soil health, and what didn't.

Smallholder-facing businesses sit in a gap too risky for banks and too small for most investors. In this session, Rex showed how blended finance closed that gap and de-risked capital for the businesses farmers relied on.

Carbon projects built on shaky land rights tend to collapse, fast. In this session, Juan made the case that secure land tenure for Indigenous peoples wasn't a nice-to-have. It was what made carbon outcomes credible at all.

You can't improve what you can't measure, especially across millions of small plots. In this session, Darcy showed how satellite data tracked farmer practices at scale, backing both program decisions and climate finance claims.

Good restoration work doesn't automatically unlock carbon finance. In this session, Isabel laid out the data, MRV, and capacity gaps keeping strong African restoration projects locked out of carbon markets.

Most farmers can't call an agronomist when a crop starts failing. Now they could text one. In this session, Jona introduced Farmer.Chat, the AI tool that put expert advice into farmers' hands and adapted it to local conditions.

Corporate net zero pledges often leave smallholders out of the deal. In this session, Elizabeth explained how insetting flipped that, letting companies invest directly in the supply chains farmers depend on.

Most pilots never make it past a few hundred farmers. This one scaled to 40,000. In this peer-to-peer session, we learned more about the training systems and incentives that made that leap possible.

Chemical fertilizer is expensive and getting more expensive. In this session, Thet showed how biological inputs build healthier soil for smallholders without it, and where the model was ready to scale.

Payment schemes for ecosystem services look great on paper and routinely fail in practice. In this session, Rachel walked through the land rights and legal groundwork it takes to get that money to the farmers who actually earned it.