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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "23", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "number", "answer": "2", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Pam Tarr www.pamtarr.com", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The project is 23 months old, and 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. We\u2019ve updated our proposal to include our whole-systems Food Summit on Nov 26, 2023, which had participants from 2 local First Nations and generated 9 project groups, including several members of Transition Salt Spring (part of the Transition network), which is a food security partner and helps reinforce the carbon focus.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the Climate Solutions Round eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our biggest new milestone was the Salt Spring Island Food Summit on Nov 26, 2023, which took a systemic approach to addressing the problem of food security as a way to attract a wide variety of representatives from many sectors: food production, processing and distribution, transportation, energy, business, government, regional folks and indigenous relations. The summit brought a bunch of new people into the carbon-sequestration/carbon-reduction tent, and took advantage (through a keynote speech, presentation and small-group discussion) of millennia of traditional indigenous knowledge in low-carbon food production, controlled burns, forest and wetlands restoration, etc. Since the Summit, we\u2019ve been supporting the 9 project groups that participants signed up for; most have now met at least once, and 2 of them have made significant progress. Specifically, the 50 Farms group got a $159,000 CAD grant from the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) that marries food security and emergency preparedness as a way to drive the establishment of new farms and support of existing ones; and the Business of Food group established a pipeline of hydroponically-grown lettuce (up 700 heads per week year round) to local businesses, including restaurants and grocery stores. Our biggest challenge has been getting the indigenous led project groups on their feet, because local First Nations are overwhelmed, underfunded, and are experiencing frequent deaths and other tragedies that require mourning periods before returning to work. ", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've received funding in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. You can also include the challenges you've faced. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": false, "question": "Have you used Hypercert, Deresy, Karma GAP or other impact tool for your project? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "https://hypercerts.org/app/view#claimId=0x822f17a9a5eecfd66dbaff7946a8071c265d1d07-14524272267286416436007218369010162569576448", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share links to any tools you are using to track impact (Hypercerts, Deresy, Karma GAP).", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Right now our impact is measured in 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. We aim to introduce carbon measurement during the 2024 growing season. The Stqeeye' Learning Society is a local Quw'utsun organization that is already measuring carbon reduction through their local forest and restoration projects in Xwaaqw'um (Burgoyne Bay Provincial Park) and some of their members participated in the Nov 2023 Food Summit.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our work is based on the fact that complex systems are changed through relationships, meaning that even the best project idea will likely fizzle out if it isn\u2019t supported by new and existing relationships. So we\u2019re proud of the fact that our first Food Summit introduced 80 participants to a minimum of a dozen people each, creating hundreds of new relationships that are already leading to collaboration outside the Summit project groups. This is critical because carbon sequestration/reduction on any meaningful scale is a by-product of building community relationships, whether at the local or global scale, and can't be successful or enduring without that. The rapid and continuing increase in global emissions bears out the futility of anything other than a systemic approach.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "checkbox", "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": 17}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Natural Systems CO2 Sequestration - Natural Based Solutions", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["North America"], "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is located: Choose from: ", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "North America", "hidden": false, "question": "Primary Location/Region where the project is making an impact: Choose from: ", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Canada (for local food security), the world (for sequestered carbon)", "hidden": false, "question": "What specific Country or Countries are you making an impact in?", "questionId": 22}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 23}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": false, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 125k sub-round funded by Shell? All grantees must agree to a KYC process to be eligible to receive these funds. ", "questionId": 24}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": false, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 50k sub-round funded by Celo? In order to qualify you must meet one of these eligibility criteria: Have an active deployment on the Celo blockchain or Have a clear public intention, commitment, or roadmap towards supporting Celo.  ", "questionId": 25}], "project": {"id": "0xbec2190bb266f506908c21cc0efdc5e9a422b40ea71db9f76504ca33451a99ca", "title": "DeFood: Decentralized Food Security Network (DFSN)", "logoImg": "bafkreia4xplca3mhptcvy5j5hk2tg463efidrjxzoyedkmrogrpydrmjyy", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreieibmxotbsh26aswxh4y72liisc5pqgcs2vjylbexux3r6wzqzc6u", "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 revenue streams to monetize carbon sequestering assets and support localized trade and digital currencies.\n\n[![De-Food-23-26-roadmap.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/xd5x8M5Z/De-Food-23-26-roadmap.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/Jyycdy93)\n\nThe Stage 1 goal is to use Salt Spring Island, BC (in Canada), as a model for DeFood. Our approach is based on complex systems, which are only changed by relationships -- this means that food security must be a by-product of community building, specifically by busting silos and bringing a wide variety of people together. \nThat 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. \n\nThe result has been a distributed network of new relationships which will be critical to solving the problem of boosting food production, which will then lead to greater carbon sequestration through the use of regenerative agriculture. 9 project groups came out of the Food Summit, as well as an ad hoc regional group that's taking on a number of different food-related topics.  \n\n[![50-Farms-logo-crop.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/x8rD9Ltz/50-Farms-logo-crop.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/TLcH958d)\n\nOne of the groups, 50 Farms, applied through the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust for a $159,000 CAD grant from the Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF), which it received in February of this year. 50 Farms is a project that will 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. And as food production grows, we'll introduce measurement of carbon sequestration.\n\nOn the virtual side, we'll be building capacity over the next 2 years for additional revenue streams to food producers through securitizing natural assets on the model of -- and in collaboration with -- organizations like Centree and Kolektivo. While this model has often been applied just to forests, we seek to expand it to regenerative agriculture, wild-harvesting and marine-based food production (including kelp farming), all of which can sequester more carbon than steady-state forests. In the long run we want to use this 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.\n\nPhase 2, 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's why we aim to document the Salt Spring Island model so it can be used by small communities everywhere to 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"}}