TechnoServe Drives Sustainable Agriculture Practices with TraceX Solutions
TechnoServe, through the ‘Sustainable Livelihoods for Smallholder Farmers’program, partnered with TraceX to ensure consistency in the quality of coffee produced through sustainable farming practices. This has supported the program in improving farmer incomes, market linkages and socio-economic and environmental benefits.
TechnoServe is an international non-profit organization that uses business solutions to support low-income communities in creating lasting prosperity for themselves.
TechnoServe’s ‘Sustainable Livelihoods for Smallholder Farmers’ program was implemented in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh with support from the Walmart Foundation Click here to enter text.aims to improve the incomes of smallholder farmers by strengthening Farmer producer Organizations (FPOs) and transforming them into sustainable enterprises.
Industry
Foundation
Region
Andhra Pradesh, India
Use Case
Tracking Of Sustainable Practices, Regenerative Score Cards
Features Used
Crop Configuration and PoP
Farm Audits
Soil Health Assessment
Regenerative Score Cards
According to UNEP,worldwide, about 2 billion hectares of land is degraded and adoption of sustainable practices in farming will improve soil health, counter climate shocks, feed a growing population, provide a decent living to the farmers and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Challenges
Lack of knowledge on climate smart practices
Uncertainties in crop yields and hence farmer incomes
Ineffective Market linkages
The need for technology and digitized solutions
Food insecurity and Unemployment
Child labour and gender inequality
Solutions
TraceX Sustainability Platform helps farmers to adopt and track regenerative and eco-friendly farming practices for the benefit of people and the planet. It helps in configuring and tracking the environmental and socio-economic aspects in farming practices, thereby helping to build a sustainable coffee supply chain.
Crop Activities
These are configured as Package of Practices
Farm Activities
These include Farm Audit, Soil Health assessment and Regenerative Coffee Score card.
Regenerative Score Cards
A Regenerative Score Card can be considered as a tool to engage farmers and help them in their regenerative farming journey.
The Coffee Regenerative Score Card built by TraceX with support from TechnoServe empowers farmers to adopt sustainable practices of production to help the people and the planet. This scorecard is associated with medals based on the scores to realize gold, silver and bronze certificates for every farmer.
The Regenerative Coffee scorecard is a dynamic assessment activity configuration.
The total score card is associated with the Medals.
Gold Certificate = 33
Silver Certificate = 22-32
Bronze Certificate = 11-22
Farm Audit
Farmer Audit Feature captures the following entities:
Implementation of sustainable farming practices benefits both TechnoServe and TraceX in many ways:
Implementation of on-farm regenerative practices enhances transparency and sustainability in the coffee value chain.
Empower farmers with baselines to identify strengths and suggest areas of improvement.
Nurture best agriculture practices for a sustainable future
Facilitate obtaining Certifications like Fairtrade, Organic and Rain Forest alliance.
Certifications requires farms to use regenerative practices that can be translated into different tiers which helps to assess where the farmer is in his regenerative journey.
The scorecard gives the farmer a comfort of knowing that the farm’s practices have met some environmental threshold.
Businesses get an edge as end customers can enjoy high quality products with reduced environmental impact and support a more sustainable food system. Technology solution providers have the benefit of providing sustainable solutions and responding to the growing demand for sustainable products and improve the overall health and resilience of farming system.
The adoption of sustainable agriculture practices through regenerative agriculture and agroforestry systems is vital to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate crisis and create a more sustainable and resilient food system that ensures food security and preserves natural resources for the future generations.
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