This blog was co-created in partnership with Team4Tech. India is home to nearly 126 million smallholder farmers, many of whom are increasingly exposed to climate change and environmental stress. Rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and pest and disease pressure threaten both crop yields and farmer incomes for farmers across all of India. Kheyti, a nonprofit based…

Our investment in Trellis, an Acumen Investment Initiative Smallholder farmers (SHFs) produce up to 70% of the food in low- and middle-income countries. Yet they are among the most climate vulnerable people on the planet. Increasingly severe and unpredictable droughts, floods, and heatwaves are threatening their livelihoods and, by extension, the food security of more…

Image courtesy of RMI Of all the climate risks facing the world today, extreme heat may have the greatest potential to threaten human health. It is already having real, life-threatening consequences, especially for the more than one billion people living in informal settlements around the world. In many tropical cities, temperatures are pushed even higher…

Image courtesy of Mati Carbon Global efforts to combat climate change increasingly point to a critical gap: the need for large-scale, permanent carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to address the residual emissions that will remain even when net zero is reached. Scientists estimate that around 9 billion tons of CO₂ must be removed annually to meet…