Value Chain Integration

 
 

Major corporations and especially Food and Beverage FMCGs have made aggressive commitments to achieve Carbon Neutrality and net zero supply chains in order to transform their agricultural sourcing models to regenerative agriculture. The private sector, however, faces major challenges in implementation sustainability policies due to the prevalent sourcing models for specialty agricultural ingredients: fragmented supply chains, multiple intermediaries and several tiers between the company and the farms as well as antiquated farming models and practices in the field. This leads to variability in supply, volatility in prices, and a general lack of supply chain transparency. The transformation of farming and upstream operations into low carbon, nature positive assets is therefore complex, capital intensive, and carries a high level of uncertainty and risk. Scarce capital limits the ability corporations to invest into the necessary transformation of farming operations towards fully decarbonized, regenerative systems.


WE SUPPORT CORPORATIONS IN ADDRESSING THESE CHALLENGES BY OFFERING A COMPLETE SOLUTION TO REDESIGNING SUPPLY CHAINS, INCLUDING FINANCING, DEVELOPMENT, OPERATION AND IMPACT MONITORING.

Through project financing we support the transition of farming systems and first transformation operations, partnering with investments funds, direct investors and development finance institutions.

WHAT WE DO

We identify farming and processing projects that we design and develop, or purchase and transform. Our internal operations team ensures optimal design for deployment of regenerative practices, providing corporations with a farming product of guaranteed origin, full traceability and transparency of regenerative field practices, and maximized carbon sequestration, at scale. 

We monitor and control qualitative and quantitative regenerative impacts on GHG mitigation and CO2 sequestration, water, soil health, biodiversity, reforestation, social equity and animal welfare, in alignment with corporations’ Scope 3 requirements and with third party verification.

This approach can be deployed in large-scale farming models, hybrid nucleus-plasma models with anchor farms and smallholder aggregation and support, or exclusive smallholder aggregation systems.



SERVICES WE OFFER

Corporations can partner with us through different approaches: 

  • CO-INVESTMENT IN FLAGSHIP PROJECTS: Co-design flagship sustainable supply-chain projects that become sourcing solutions and marketing/corporate reputation opportunities for the corporate partners. Our corporate partners benefit from off-taking the product through Sustainable Purchasing Agreements while also obtaining financial returns from the project itself. 

 

  • SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING AGREEMENTS: Long-term offtake agreements with pre-aligned product quality and sustainability specifications, purchase volumes and pricing structures that provide price predictability for purchasers and de-risk farming operations.