We’re delighted with the success of our Cool Farm Tool online launch event, September 29, 2016. For those of you that missed it, please find here slides and recording.(You must download the recording to view it all, the link takes you to a preview and download option). A total of 202 people registered ahead of time, 133 people attend and … Read More
Event: 29th September – Cool Farm online launch!
We are hosting our online launch webinar at 1500 BST for the online launch of the Cool Farm Tool, and supporting resources. The 1.5h session will include: live demo of latest features for greenhouse gas measurement; introduction and demo of new biodiversity module; updates on latest developments and upcoming methods; and 45min Q&A with all registrants. Sign up for the … Read More
Danone’s journey to the Cool Farm Alliance
At the end of 2015, Danone announced a very ambitious objective: to become a Zero Net Carbon Company by 2050, covering full scopes including agriculture. The challenge is huge and it starts by getting robust and reliable methods and tools to monitor the progress of the greenhouse gas footprints of the agricultural raw materials we source, mainly raw milk. Even … Read More
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 modestly. After Unilever and the University of Aberdeen developed a beta version of the tool, Christof Walter said he … Read More
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 like the Natural Step from Sweden and Shared Value from Michael Porter at Harvard. With very tangible aspects like energy management, where … Read More
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 margin. So why would he or she, with little love for surveys and paperwork, use the CFT at all? Let’s face it, most … Read More
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 4C Code of Conduct); detailed information on the use of the CFT to monitor the climate impact of the proposed practices and identify hotspots … Read More
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 to broccoli producers. Key to this case study are the emissions results relating to fertilizer use and the transportation of … Read More
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 with Catholic Relief Services. The analysis demonstrates the wide variety of effects on emissions of different types of crop residue management techniques, and also sheds light on … Read More
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, solicit feedback from growers on the feasibility of changing practices to lower emissions, and garner support through the California tomato industry … Read More
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