Working with leaders in the agricultural finance arena, we are collecting and demonstrating the utility of combining multiple “Pay-for Performance” mechanisms, to find the funding sources needed to adequately pay farmers for adoption and maintenance of regenerative agricultural approaches that restore ecosystem functions, specifically GHG reductions, carbon sequestration, water quality enhancement, flood protection, drought and fire protection.
This initiative focuses on aggregating and forging creative collaboration of private and public financiers to create investment vehicles and models for farmer incentives that together create a “golden carrot” for farmers entering the program. Initial focus is on innovations to stave off the crisis faced by family dairy farmers in the North East.
