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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc) ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "3", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Twitter : @amonmoce & @Adelessagh", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "dropdown", "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": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- We are working on this project since the end of March. Amon & David were planning to start a ReFi project together while at the same time Kouakou & David were applying for a shared position in the cocoa industry in Ghana. Finally, we decided to share our common interests and work for the same cooperative in Ivory Coast.\n\n- Regenerative cocoa increases the length of time the land can be used, thereby reducing the need to clear new plots. At the same time, by producing and using biochar to amend the soil, in addition to increasing the longevity of use of the plot, we are also contributing to efforts to sequester carbon. Finally, by refusing to use toxic pesticides and fertilisers in the wrong doses, we are also reducing our cooperative's overall carbon footprint.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "First participation of our project.", "hidden": false, "question": "What previous Gitcoin grant rounds has this project been a part of? 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This enables them to increase their yields, improve the quality of the cocoa they produce and stop using adulterated pesticides in the wrong doses, which kill many Ivorian farmers every year.\n\n**Step 2**: With your support, we enable these farmers to obtain organic certification, doubling the cooperative\u2019s income.\n\n**Step 3** : With this additional income, we are sending our farmers\u2019 children to school, carrying out reforestation operations, and setting up a biochar production line to improve the soil on our cooperative\u2019s plots.\n\n**Step 4**: With the help of our friends from Shamba and the use of satellite images, we are able to prove that we have not participated in deforestation and are therefore compliant with future European regulations on deforestation. A competitive advantage that will prove decisive when the European market restricts access to compliant cocoa only at the end of 2024.\n\n**Step 5**: By implementing dMRV methodologies, in partnership with Shamba and ixo, our reforestation and carbon sequestration efforts are rewarded by the creation of carbon credits and impact certificates that can either be sold or transferred to the cocoa importer in order to inset its carbon footprint.\n\n-------------------\n\n# A Web3 cooperative?\n\n> **Orange Pill cacao is a cooperative that aims to give people interested in ReFi the opportunity to have a concrete and operative experience of the regenerative cryptoeconomy.** \n\n+ **By creating a cross-pollination**, of growers and consumers via ReFi, we want to create a community uniting the two ends of the consumption chain, which are also the two parties that are abused by the system. \n\n+ **By enabling them to talk to each other**, we want to change the rules of a coordination game in which farmers and consumers are currently the big losers. \n\n+ **By giving them the opportunity to coordinate**, we hope to enable them to maximise their gains.\n\n**Step 6**: We allow consumers to join the cooperative via NFTs, each representing a share in the cooperative. If they complete the KYC procedure, they will be able to obtain voting rights and participate in the governance of the cooperative, in accordance with Ivorian law.\n\n**Step 7**: Now that our cooperative has a solid foundation, our aim is to change scale: with the surplus, develop the means to process the cocoa produced by our cooperative ourselves in order to capture more value for our farmers.\n\n**Step 8**: Use the QF to provide technical, community and financial support for the creation of new web3 cooperatives in Africa.\n\n**Step 9**: Use the BTC Lightning Network to track all the payements made to the farmers to prove that they are receiving the premiums they are due.\n\n**Step 10**: Put all our certification data on-chain, so that it can be consulted directly by both the wholesalers who buy our cocoa and the consumers of chocolate from our cooperative (We are currently studying the options available. Regen network, PGN, Ixo and EmpowerChain offer great solutions. We look forward to discussing them with you!). \n\n-----------------\n\n# What we have achieved so far :\n\n+ We wrote the statutes of our cooperative in Ivory Coast\n\n+ We\u2019ve identified 50 partner farmers who want to try this pioneering experiment with us (and you!)\n\n+ We've identified a chocolate maker in burkina faso who may be interested in organic regenerative cocoa\n\n+ We\u2019ve contacted Shamba, ixo and Open Food Chain to find out how we can become part of their network\n\n\n--------------------\n\n# Who are we?\n\n+ [**Kouakou Koffi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kouakou-stanislas-koffi-7b47b5185/). Agricultural engineer, doctoral student in regenerative agriculture and BioChar at the Centre national ivoirien de recherche agronomique (CNRA), project manager at the CNRA and soil management consultant for the RainForest Alliance label.\n\n+ [**Amon Bazongo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amonbazongo/). CEO of [YanFoma](https://yanfoma.com/), former digital and innovation officer at the headquarters of the African Union, developer specialising in AI. Steward of the [GreenPill Afrique Francophone chapter](https://twitter.com/GreenPill_AFRO).\n\n+ [**David Many**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-many-8bb0aaaa/). Co-founder of the Swiss NGO [Cosmos for Humanity](https://cosmosforhumanity.eu/en). Steward of the [GreenPill Afrique Francophone chapter](https://twitter.com/GreenPill_AFRO).\n\n\nIf you\u2019re interested in West Africa, cocoa, satellite data and ReFi, and if you\u2019d like to experience ReFi for yourself, you can follow our [Charmverse](https://app.charmverse.io/greenpill-network/page-6065820763224581?viewId=cd31a3eb-4ac9-495b-9308-1aa4adf158c2) to find out about our latest news, meeting reports and the difficulties we're facing with our project. And why not join us?\n\n--------------\n# Oh, and yes, why \"Orange\" Pill ?\n\n+ As you can see, cocoa beans as cocoa shells are not only Green, they can be Orange as well (and even Purple!).\n\n+ We believe that Bitcoin has a role to play in the development of the ReFi movement. Merging 'Greenpills' with 'Orangepills' could create great synergies. Especially in Africa.\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "orangepillcacao"}, "recipient": "0x4e183Cc70CC2BD4A6901BCde7A687531FD8Dfed1"}}