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GLOBAL ACADEMY and its international partners help to mainstream innovative agriculture and forestry solutions that integrate the financial success of farmers, other stakeholders and rural economies, with the regeneration of nature and society.
Activities of Global Academy
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support the ongoing innovation of agriculture and forestry solutions
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support co-innovation among the most innovative approaches
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offer locally-adapted trainings in farming methods and product value addition
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offer farmer capacity building in management, commercialization and finance
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strengthen national extension systems and scaling capacities
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co-develop and implement business models and blended finance approaches
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support the development and scaling of policy initiatives
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co-lead stakeholder engagement for the above activities
Mutually Reinforcing Benefits
The innovative approaches that GLOBAL ACADEMY helps to advance are well researched, adaptive and scalable. They already achieve many mutually reinforcing benefits. These approaches:
increase farmer incomes by increasing crop yields and by reducing costs
enhance soil vitality, water holding capacity and biodiversity
reduce water needs, irrigation and input costs
strengthen resilience to droughts, floods, storms and pests
work in very dry conditions, revive fallow land, reverse desertification
strengthen food and water security, nutritional values and overall health
greatly reduce or completely eliminate costly and harmful chemical inputs
sequesters carbon and methane from the atmosphere
increase income security and diversification via multi-cropping
lend themselves for value addition and integration in organic value chains
strengthen local communities and rural economic development
promote gender equity and offer youth a promising future on the land
A New Mainstream is Possible
Together with India’s Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) and NOW Partners Foundation, GLOBAL ACADEMY is internationally adapting and scaling Andhra Pradesh’s Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF). It scaled from 40,000 in 2016 to over 1.1 million farmers in 2025. By 2030 it will be used by over 50% of Andhra Pradesh’s 6 million farmers, in this very geographically very diverse state of over 50 million inhabitants. This demonstrates that highly innovative agriculture and forestry approaches can become the new mainstream.
Scaling Successful Solutions Globally
- Towards a new economic mainstream
Business & Blended Finance Solutions
Finance & Business Solutions
Supports Farm Workers to Become Land Owners
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.
Finance & Business Solutions
Financing the Cosmetics Value Chain of NATURA
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
Finance & Business Solutions
Regenerative Palm Oil for Forests and Foresters
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
Finance & Business Solutions
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.
Finance & Business Solutions
Guarantees for Public Funding and Blended Finance
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
Finance & Business Solutions