Digital Green and One Acre Fund were originally shortlisted as competitors for the Meta Llama Impact for Good Grant. However, as a result of their collaboration in the CASH Coalition, they submitted a joint application and won an award in the fall of 2024. Their ongoing partnership focuses on leveraging AI to enhance smallholder advisory services, including fine-tuning a small language model, improving call center efficiency, and leveraging AI-powered digital training for One Acre Fund call center agents.

One Acre Fund and Landesa are exploring how land rights—particularly through a gendered lens—can generate more holistic and sustained impact for farmers, especially among subpopulations that stand to benefit most. The two organizations have partnered in Rwanda and Kenya to support smallholder farmers by enhancing land tenure security and promoting the adoption of more productive agricultural practices. This collaboration is grounded in two core hypotheses: first, that strengthening land tenure—especially for women—encourages smallholders to adopt profit-enhancing strategies, such as OAF-supported crops and trees; and second, that these joint interventions will systemically deepen, diversify, and secure smallholders’ asset base. 

PxD and One Acre Fund: CAP-A and One Acre Fund have also contributed as advisory group members to PxD’s carbon credits project.

Digital Green and Forest Trends are collaborating to adapt Digital Green’s AI-powered extension tool, Farmer.Chat, for initial use by family farmers and traditional communities in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest. The initiative aims to deliver groecological technical assistance and advisory services and is supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Babban Gona and Digital Green explored the development of a joint initiative to deploy technology for climate communication in Hausa, and to support smallholder participation in carbon credit markets. After careful consideration, both parties agreed to place the initiative on hold after assessing factors such as the immediate economic value for smallholders and the risk of disrupting existing communication systems.

Precision Development (PxD) and CAP-A: CAP-A has played an advisory role in PxD’s Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) initiative, including organizing field site visits in Kenya. 

One Acre Fund and CAP-A: One Acre Fund and CAP-A have engaged in several productive exchanges focused on financial models to support regenerative agricultural practices and climate-related services for smallholders. These collaborations have explored innovative approaches such as enhanced rock weathering and biochar and have contributed to shared learning and the advancement of smallholder-focused climate solutions within the CASH Coalition.

FPIC at Landesa: Since joining the CASH Coalition, Landesa has placed a greater emphasis on elevating the central role of land rights in carbon markets and has clarified its strategic focus in this area. This includes an organizational commitment to pursuing partnerships that strengthen ethical and sustainable carbon markets, as well as advancing advocacy priorities related to land tenure under the Rio Conventions, particularly with respect to Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement’s Crediting Mechanism.

Drawing on coalition insights, Landesa conducted a rigorous analysis of carbon projects and has co-developed, in consultation with the CASH team and member organizations, a ten-step framework to ensure Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) of all stakeholders involved in such initiatives (see dedicated section).

In Thailand, Landesa applied learnings from CASH’s work on carbon finance to deepen its engagement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. This led to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to guide joint efforts on community forest certification, including policy reform initiatives that promote fair compensation and uphold FPIC within carbon project frameworks.