Many smallsources, oneprogramme.
A smallholder or a small plant cannot reach a large buyer alone, and a large buyer cannot contract with thousands of farms. We group our own farms into one project that villages join as they are ready, and we choose other owners’ projects to fit a buyer’s needs. Each owner is paid directly.
Nothing signed yet. The first conversations are open.
- Farms
- Our own farmers’ plots, villages added as they join
- Owners
- Other owners’ projects, chosen for a buyer
- Measured
- The same way on every plot
- Records
- One record from plot to retirement
- Retired
- In the buyer’s own registry account
Every farm counted, in one record.
Tractor trolleys of paddy straw queued beside a weighbridgeFrom many plots to one buyer
Plots join through their farmer organisation, are measured the same way, audited together and retired in the buyer’s own account.
- Villages
- One record
- Audit
- Issue
- Buyer
Two ways to group.
Our own farms as one project, or several owners’ projects chosen for one buyer.
Our own farms, one grouped project.
Registered once, on a small first set of plots. More villages join as they are ready and are measured the same way, so a buyer contracts with one counterparty for the whole programme.
Several owners’ projects, chosen for one buyer.
The buyer’s requirements shape the choice. The buyer buys from each owner, pays each owner directly and retires every credit in its own account. We are paid a fee for the work.
One record behind every credit.
Plot, practice, measurement, audit and retirement in one record, with the farmer’s statement beside every farm credit, in the form a buyer’s reporting asks for.
What grouping never means.
Others’ credits
We never hold another owner’s credits to resell them as our own product.
Pooled money
Buyers pay owners directly; we never pool anyone’s money.
In the middle
We never stand between the buyer and the owner as a trading party.
