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Acumen Academy Launches New Climate Resilient Agriculture Accelerator in India
Develop your India agri-enterprise with a 10-week accelerator designed to help you develop and scale your business model
April 14, 2021

In India, about 70 percent of rural families — most of whom own less than five acres of land and earn less than $3 per day — depend on farming for their livelihoods. But climate-related stressors such as volatile temperatures, drought, pest attacks, and soil erosion — coupled with post-harvest losses due to food waste and spoilage — are damaging their crops, threatening their modest livelihoods, and impacting not only the sustainability of Indian agriculture, but food security around the globe.
If we don’t do anything big in the next ten years...our ability to grow food efficiently and the sustainability of the whole food ecosystem will become a big question mark.
Hemendra Mathur,
Acumen Advisor and India Venture Capitalist
JOIN A COMMUNITY OF CLIMATE-FOCUSED INNOVATORS
1. Regenerative agriculture and resource conservation:
2. Supply chain innovations and wastage reduction:
3. Access to markets and finance, in order to strengthen the support ecosystem for smallholder farmers:
A SECTOR RIPE FOR INNOVATION
An accelerator focused on regenerative agriculture and climate resilience is so important because as investors, we need to see business models that can scale and have impact.
Rebecca Mincy,
Investment Director, ARAF
ABOUT THE ACCELERATOR
To make a difference in this sector, partnerships are key. How efficiently and effectively we collaborate will determine the results that we achieve at the end of the day.
Arindom Datta, Acumen Advisor;
Asia Head of Sustainability, Rabobank