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Sangana PPP Kenyan coffee

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector. This report presents an overview on the Sangana PPP (public, private partnership) aimed to develop a 4C Climate Code (an additional component to the already existing 4...

Oxfam Broccoli

The results of this CFT case study came out of a consultancy conducted by CIAT for Oxfam GB to examine the effects of climate change on smallholder farmers in Guatemala producing frozen vegetables for export. The CFT analysis was limited...

Nicaragua CRS beans

Smallholder Beans, Nicaragua: Cool Farming Options Pilot with Catholic Relief Services. This report details the use of the CFT with smallholder bean producers in Nicaragua involved in climate change and livelihood development projects wi...

Heinz tomato

H.J. Heinz chose to focus on a key crop and a major growing region – California tomatoes – where they source from approximately 270,000 acres annually . The company’s goals were to provide a practical, user-friendly tool for growers,...

GIZ & Sangana (Coffee)

This report details the use of the CFT at the smallholder level in Kenya on 25 coffee farms. Since the coffee is produced in agroforestry systems, the results show the added benefit of having shade trees present in the system. In additio...

Unilever and the Cool Farm Tool

Unilever has embedded the Cool Farm Tool into their farmer and supplier sustainable agriculture self assessment platform. In the first year, suppliers are required to fill in the data for one ‘typical’ farm. Starting January 2013 the...

Finding the frequency for sustainable ag

Having worked full time in sustainable development within the corporate sector for the past 15 years I have seen many changes, from a focus on energy, water, waste within the factory through to highly conceptual (and practical) ideas lik...

Mandate for rapid reduction

The Cool Farm Tool has evolved to become THE global farm-level tool for measuring carbon. Our mandate now is to manage a rapid reduction of emissions. Measurement might turn out to have been the easy part. The Cool Farm Tool began modest...

Why would a farmer use the Cool Farm Tool?

Farmers think primarily in input and output, in costs, yield and margin. The current Cool Farm Tool (CFT) provides insight into greenhouse gases and biodiversity. To the farmer, neither has direct obvious impact on costs, yields or margi...

Event: Cool Farm speaking at GLOBALG.A.P Summit 2016

Cool Farm Alliance’s Simon Miller will be speaking at two sessions during the GLOBALG.A.P Summit 2016, Amsterdam 27th – 28th September 2016. Simon will be a panellist in: ‘For a Climate Resilient Future: The role of GLOBALG.A.P. commun...

Pulse Canada, Cool Farm Tool Pilot

The Canadian Pulse Grower’s Association investigated the use of the CFT to develop an on-farm carbon footprint of navy bean production in Canada. 34 farms were sampled. Pulse Canada’s goals were to produce an aggregate number but also to...

The Cool Farm Tool: Driving sustainability in supply chains

Gold Standard The Cool Farm Tool is an online calculator that enables farmers to measure their greenhouse gas emissions, and understand mitigation options for agricultural production. Originally initiated by Unilever, the Cool Farm Allia...

A comparison of carbon accounting tools for arable crops in the United Kingdom

A review was performed to compare 11 existing greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting tools produced in order to calculate emissions from arable crops, either for food or bioenergy production in the UK, and a multi-criteria-analysis was perform...

Costco organic eggs

For the past two years the organic egg producers supplying Costco stores have been using the Cool Farm Tool to gain insight into the carbon emissions of their operations. With support from the Sustainable Food Lab, Costco has engaged...

Cutting cotton carbon emissions

WWF-India used the Cool Farm Tool to calculate GHG emissions from selected farm plots under traditional cultivation and Better Management Practices (BMP) cotton production systems. The results showed that traditional cultivation uses alm...