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(Reminder: projects must have proof of being over 3 months old)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "7683", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "DeFood has received the $7,683 USD through Climate Rounds at Gitcoin and the Climate Coordination Network. In addition, DeFood has been granted (but not yet received) 20,000 ARB from ThankARB/Thrive via Charmverse.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from each funding source and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "1) Jon Cooksey - Team leader, economist, community organizer, climate activist & consultant, food producer, writer/communications, liaison to Blockchain dev (Twitter @ync2020)    2) Pam Tarr - Communications, video production, political and social advocacy, climate and non-profit consultant, community organizer, food producer (Twitter @pamtarr)    3) Nick Adamson-Jones - permaculture expert, farmer (owner of Forest Gardens Farm), climate activist, collapse-aware community organizer, co-manager of Grow Local, a community food-based organization subcontracting to the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust (no social media/farmer)   4) Daria Zovi - permaculture and farm expert with broad experience in different types of grown operations, organic farm inspector, co-owner of Quarry and Chorus Frog Farms, specialist in collectivist communities (no social media/farmer)", "hidden": false, "question": "List the team Name/Role/Experience/Socials ", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The project is is primarily focused on the climate solution of regenerative agriculture, which may be the most significant way to sequester carbon, naturally-based or otherwise. Beyond that, distributed food distribution reduces carbon emissions from transportation, which is one of the major contributors to climate change, and using food security as a lens drives expanded local food production and thus sequestration. \n\nBecause the earth (and every ecosystem within it, including our island) is a complex system, it's necessary to solve multiple interconnected problems at once to create any effective and lasting change. In our case, we're fundamentally building a model of how to improve local food security in small communities all over the world, while simultaneously improving carbon drawdown to mitigate climate change, which in turn has had a severe impact on food production.\nBut climate change itself is only a symptom of the larger problem of overshoot, meaning human impact on the planet, driven primarily by overpopulation and consumption in the developed world, amplified (and only rarely mitigated) by technology. (Other familiar symptoms include loss of biodiversity, pandemics, hitting the limits of non-renewable resources, war, etc.) Similarly, food security is one of a group of interconnected problems at the local level, including housing, water, energy, transportation, health, community cohesion and lack of Indigenous collaboration and engagement.\nTo address these systemic, interconnected problems, we must therefore take systemic action, which can best be identified by the way it solves multiple problems at the same time.\nSo, because it's only one of many symptoms of overshoot, any real and lasting impact on climate change must address the real drivers of overshoot -- in our case, right-sizing population for our local ecosystem, and reducing consumption by relocalizing food production.\nAt the local level, the deFood project necessarily has to address all of the interconnected local problems listed above to build meaningful and lasting food security, which is why we've largely focused on the latter 2 items -- building relationships with those on our island, and with Indigenous folks and settlers in our surrounding region -- as an initial foundation for the work that will come later.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project is a part of the solution to the Climate crisis.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/defood-decentralized-food-security-network-dfsn-1", "hidden": false, "question": "Please provide a link to your GG20 Karma GAP link. (Reminder that you need to provide two milestones with updates.)", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our impact is partly measured in increased social participation, because we have to reshape the way our local and regional community approaches both food production and Indigenous relationships in order to drive the wider adoption of regenerative agriculture techniques and distributed local and micro-local food production that will produce measurable results in carbon sequestration and emissions reduction. Additional metrics are funding received, including the $149,000 CAD from the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (via the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust), and the 20,000 ARB grant from ThankARB/Thrive/Charmverse to work towards a food aggregation app with sequestration dMRV functionality. \nThis funding has, in turn, allowed the addition of personnel. The Farmland Trust has hired 2 food security coordinators for a year, and the DeFood team now has participation by 2 local farmers, both experts in regenerative agriculture techniques. And we\u2019ll be engaging a dev team to get data on-chain, and design the website beta of our food aggregation app. \nIn the next phase, as we work toward the app, we\u2019ll be creating baseline measurements of local food production, and will be able to report real data on how our projects are increasing production, better supporting farmers financially, driving increased adoption of regenerative agriculture, and amount of additional carbon sequestered. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please provide 2-3 top impacts your project had in the past 12 months. You can use the CCN Metrics Garden (https://climatecoordination.org/climate-solutions-metrics-garden-1) or use your project-specific metrics. Examples: Number of Trees planted, Total forest area protected, Amount of Carbon sequestered, Carbon sequestration from regenerated soil, Etc.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Natural Systems CO2 Sequestration - Natural Based Solutions", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "North America", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is located: Choose from: ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "North America", "hidden": false, "question": "Primary Location/Region where the project is making an impact: Choose from: ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the GG21 Climate Solution Round Eligibility Criteria?", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from the Climate Coordination Network (CCN) for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 150k sub-round funded by Shell? All grantees must agree to a KYC process to be eligible to receive these funds. ", "questionId": 18}], "project": {"id": "0xbec2190bb266f506908c21cc0efdc5e9a422b40ea71db9f76504ca33451a99ca", "title": "DeFood: Decentralized Food Security Network (DFSN)", "logoImg": "bafkreia4xplca3mhptcvy5j5hk2tg463efidrjxzoyedkmrogrpydrmjyy", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreidvymgt4dpqwqlsxislsd6lvcfiowovgl7cuzonspafy3qjkqa324", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://defood.ca", "bannerImg": "bafkreiaifjsn7wrf4judejqyvyrfptfgzdulzplyu3haqhthatba2j64ga", "createdAt": 1681921007926, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..JXmaoFqQK5M5Grwij80xgdpq-VQNqmitHW5Cxe4UbCPmcdRV5tBoqGELDjgVwOQkfWuLQEr_0gmUL4s-UCrKAw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-10-29T00:48:32.733Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-10-29T00:48:32.732Z", "expirationDate": "2024-01-27T00:48:32.732Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x4Be737B450754BC75f1ef0271D3C5dA525173F6b", "hash": "v0.0.0:tuLqiDInvwzr80EbFdToPBgCDdWI19RGYFGWEHmiKsg=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#ync2020"}}}, "description": "DeFood is short for the Decentralized Food Security Network (DFSN), which explores ways to decentralize food security both in the physical realm, by expanding localized food production, processing and distribution, and also in the virtual realm, using Blockchain technology as the basis for improved revenue streams to farmers, dMRV of of carbon sequestration from regenerative agriculture, and support for localized trade and digital currencies.\n\n[![De-Food-roadmap-2024-26-updated-for-Charmverse-food-aggregation-app-matches-Karma-Gap-milestones-8-5.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/N003LLpv/De-Food-roadmap-2024-26-updated-for-Charmverse-food-aggregation-app-matches-Karma-Gap-milestones-8-5.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/QFR4y82f)\n\nHappy to report huge progress since the previous climate round! For those who are new to DeFood, our approach is based on complex systems, which are only changed by relationships -- this means that achieving meaningful and lasting food security must be based on a foundation of community-building, specifically by busting silos and bringing a wide variety of people together. That was the principle behind the Food Summit we put on in Nov 2023, which brought together 80 representatives from very different sectors: 6 from two different First Nations (including our keynote speaker), plus local and regional representatives not only in food production, processing and distribution, but also in food-related areas like housing, water, energy, transportation and governance.\nThe result has been a growing network of new relationships, as well as 9 project groups taking on a number of different food-related topics. 2 of these projects are of particular importance: 1) the 50 Farms project, which has obtained funding in collaboration with our local emergency preparedness office (part of the Capital Regional District), and 2) new relationships between farmers, restaurateurs and grocery store owners that have led to discussion of a better pipeline for the purchase of local food, through local food aggregation.\n\n[![50-Farms-logo-crop.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/x8rD9Ltz/50-Farms-logo-crop.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/TLcH958d)\n\nAfter the Summit, the 50 Farms project applied (through the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust) for a $149,000 CAD grant from the Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF), which it received in February/March of 2024. This funding was used to hire 2 food security coordinators, whose purview is to boost food production for our entire community. \nThe idea of 50 Farms is to physically decentralize local agriculture, with a geographically distributed network of 50 farms doing CSA programs for healthy food supply and community engagement. But by taking a systemic approach it solves multiple problems at once, including improving long-term emergency preparedness, and providing both new farmer support and mentoring as well as monetary support of mid-size farms that are struggling. To make this project self-sustaining, we need to make farming more profitable, so that farmers and other food producers will increase production and improve our food security. \nThat\u2019s why we\u2019re thrilled to have received a new 20,000 ARB grant from ThankARB/Thrive, via Charmverse, that lets us start the process of building an app that will use Blockchain to create a transparent, easily-updated, interoperable database of food production on the island. This database will, in turn, be part of a food aggregation system that will solve a long-standing trust problem between producers and buyers of local food. Currently, farmers often get inadequate prices for food sold to local businesses, and don\u2019t trust that the market will be there if they increase food production. Buyers have felt unable to offer higher prices because they can\u2019t be sure that promised food will be ready when it\u2019s needed. \nThe app \u2013 supported by local staff \u2013 will be able to aggregate locally-produced food and thus be a buffer against variations in local supply and demand, but also (because it boosts production) make our island more resilient in the face of supply chain shocks, at a time when crops are failing around the world. The Charmverse funding is only a beginning, of course; the beta version of the system will be a website to pilot several farms and solve problems of participation and incentivization. But with other funding \u2013 including your donation! \u2013 we\u2019ll proceed to an app that will be easily used by food producers and buyers alike. \nThe beta version \u2013 which will likely use existing code from Astral Protocol and possibly UBC\u2019s LiteFarm app \u2013 will be structured to integrate dMRV of carbon sequestration, which we can then  correlate with different types of food production to guide greater sequestration through increased adoption of regenerative agriculture practices. Future iterations will incorporate food from wild-harvesting and marine-based food production (including kelp farming), which has the potential to sequester more carbon than steady-state forests. And in the long run we want to use the app to support a localized digital currency that will keep value circulating in the community, and free up food producers from the debt cycle that is driving many of them out of business.\nAnd the larger goal, of course, is taking it out to the world. No man is an island, but no island is an island either, and climate change is global. That\u2019s why the app will become an open-source model for other small communities around the world, all of which are facing similar challenges, so they can both increase their food security in unstable times -- their local motivation -- and draw down a lot more carbon in the process, benefiting all living things on Earth! \n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "ync2020"}, "recipient": "0x4Be737B450754BC75f1ef0271D3C5dA525173F6b"}}