Global Academy (GA) and NOW Partners Foundation (NOW) are developing a model that not only scales agroforestry and regenerates natural systems but strengthens the income and social context of farmers. […]
Natura, Latin America’s largest beauty company, has been a partner of NOW and GA since they collaborated in creating and strengthening sustainable business alliances across Latin America. Natura is highly […]
CAMTA is one of the Amazon’s oldest and most successful agroforestry cooperatives whose members’ SAF innovations regenerate natural and social systems. Because of higher productivity and value additions CAMTA farmers […]
Financing Farmer Cooperatives of the UNICAFES Alliance
Unicafes includes over 1,500 cooperatives with over 1 million farmers and foresters across Brazil. Forty percent of them are already doing Agroecology and Agroforestry, and many more want to transition. […]
In addition to supporting farmer organizations in developing and fundraising for concrete projects, GA and NOW also collaborate with governments and financial institutions to develop and manage two types of […]
GA’s local and international partners include farmers and their organizations, governments, multilaterals, researchers, civil society, companies, development banks and private investors.
GA’s work is based on the analysis of the current food system, the opportunities of innovation and the proof to scale gap that blocks the mainstreaming of Agroecology and Productive Forest solutions.
GA contributes to public policies and systems integration to mainstream Agroecology and Productive Forests. This includes TERRA, the COP 30 Action Agenda for Agroecology and Agroforestry.
With NOW Partners Foundation, local and international finance and investment partners, GA supports farmer organizations to access public and private sector funding.
Internationally GA co-creates with farmer organizations and other stakeholders hubs for co-innovation, cultivation training and economic capacity building.
