CropIn Joins European Carbon+ Farming Coalition: 100 Mn Farmers Transitioning Toward Carbon Zero Nature Positive Food Systems
New Delhi, India, June 11, 2021:
CropIn, a leading AI and data-led Agtech organization has joined the newly
formed European Carbon+ Farming Coalition to accelerate progress towards the
carbon neutrality goals of the European Green Deal. This initiative is
catalyzed by the World Economic Forum’s CEO Action Group for the European Green
Deal and is part of the emerging food and nature platform, 100 Million Farmers:
Transitioning towards Net-Zero, Nature-Positive Food Systems. The coalition
will be working towards decarbonizing the European food systems while
maximizing benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience.
Today, Agriculture in Europe is responsible
for 10 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CropIn as one of the
partners in the European Carbon + Farming Coalition, will take a farmer-centric
approach and focus on increasing the uptake of regenerative and climate-smart
agriculture practices, identifying the roadblocks to adoption, and designing
solutions with economic, practical and ecological benefits to the farmers. It
will also work to develop financial tools to empower farmers in managing
transition risk and recommend the right set of farmer incentives. This initiative aims to be a sizable
contributor to Europe’s net-zero emission plan with the adoption of smart
processes such as no-till, cover crop, and nutrient and manure management while
maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience.
Since soil is the second largest
absorber of carbon, second to the oceans, it is important to adopt on-farm
technologies to minimise the carbon emission. The transformation of the
agricultural sector through the widespread implementation of technology-based
farm management will prevent any further damage caused to the environment.
Speaking about the initiative,
Krishna Kumar, CEO of CropIn, said, "Digital & Data-driven Platforms
are key enablers in bringing large-scale transformation by engaging
stakeholders, including farmers, that will join the program. CropIn is excited
to be a part of the European Carbon+ Farming Coalition. Leveraging on our
decade long experience of working in 52 countries with our agtech platform, we
have been able to map the ag knowledge graph which will help us to contribute
positively to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon world.
We firmly believe that building a
multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral platform to support the mission will make
our planet a better place to live by addressing some of the complex challenges
around Climate Change, Bio-diversity & Food Security. Farmers would be the
key contributors to the success of the coalition and hence a data-driven
adaptive solution would be of great value to support their transition towards
sustainable & zero-carbon farming.”
The organizations partnering in the
emerging European Carbon+ Farming Coalition currently are BASF, Bayer, CropIn,
European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF), EIT Food, Hero Group,
Planet, Swiss Re, University of Glasgow, World Economic Forum, Yara
International ASA & Zurich Insurance Group.
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