How Agreena can help you get into the carbon market
How Agreena can help you get into the carbon market
The Ag-tech firm, Agreena, is encouraging all farmers to get involved in the carbon market, with the help of Agreena’s internationally accredited soil carbon certification programs.
Using the AgreenaCarbon platform, farmers can record their green house gas and carbon emission reductions, to secure verified carbon certificates; which are owned solely by the farmers – meaning you choose what you do with your carbon values.
One carbon certificate equates to one tonne of carbon and/or green house gas emissions (GHG) removed from the atmosphere. Therefore, farmers who adopt regenerative agricultural practices could be making a profit from their reduced on-farm emissions: Agreena has estimated that earnings could be between £15-30 per certificate, or £35-60 per ha.
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Agreena and Fram Farmers partner on soil carbon market to connect farmers to the green economy
Agreena and Fram Farmers partner on soil carbon market to connect farmers to the green economy
In the global move toward not only reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but actually sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, farmers are taking a centre stage position to tackle the climate crisis.
Through the adoption of conservation agriculture practices, farmers can regenerate soils and turn them into carbon sinks in the process.
At Groundswell, Europe’s largest regenerative agriculture conference, Fram Farmers and soil carbon certification company Agreena announced a newly established partnership to ramp up soil carbon sequestration in the UK and reward farmers for making the transition.
Fram Farmers supports more than 1,400 farm businesses across the UK with a variety of membership services. The organisations will work together to educate the farmer network about soil carbon certification and provide access to the green economy through the voluntary carbon market.
“We’re working together to make an impact in agriculture – while supporting an additional new revenue stream for Fram Farmers’ members,” says Ida Boesen, co-founder of Agreena. “The partnership comes in a timely manner as farmers have until the 30 June to register for participation in the 2022 AgreenaCarbon harvest to receive rewards for this year.”
Agreena’s technology platform supports farmers to input data around individual fields and receive GHG emission baselines. If a farmer decides, they can create a plan for their farm’s transition to regenerative practices and receive estimated potential earnings for each planned harvest year. Agreena monitors and verifies fields before issuing third-party verified carbon certificates which can be held for the farm or sold as offsets to climate-conscious companies.
“The AgreenaCarbon programme is designed to help farmers overcome the knowledge and financial barriers around their ability to capture carbon via regenerative farming and soil sequestration,” says Andrew Knowles, CEO of Fram Farmers. “We chose to partner with Agreena as the company has created a model that puts farmers first. Farmers have complete control of their carbon certificates, and through the connection to the voluntary carbon market, can be confident that they will maximise the value of their efforts.”
Agreena and Fram Farmers say they will further reduce the complexity surrounding carbon markets by running a series of educational events. The partners say they will help farmers improve the all-important bottom line in the short-term, but also spur long-term benefits resulting from regenerative farming practices.
“In the immediate term, there is potential for cost reductions in fertiliser and crop protection and lower fuel and labour costs, all helping to drive up profitability,” continued Boesen. “However, the benefits to the environment cannot be overestimated: improved soil quality driving up resiliency, higher water retention capacity, higher nutrient content and enhanced biodiversity.”
For more information visit: staging-agreena.kinsta.cloud/framfarmers
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Carbon farming crops should be sown now to achieve profits, says Agreena
Carbon farming crops should be sown now to achieve profits, says Agreena
According to European-wide soil carbon certification company Agreena, farmers interested in picking up extra profits for climate-friendly practices must register fields to participate prior to the company’s June 30 cut-off.
Agreena’s marketplace for farmers to generate carbon certificates follows the same annual harvest cycle that agriculture already knows from arable farming.
“Farmers are used to sowing a large part of their crops in the spring and harvesting them in the autumn. Now you must remember another crop in your fields: CO2”, says Oliver Clarke, UK manager at Agreena. “Although the transition to regenerative agricultural practices can be costly, farmers now can make a profit on it through private sector investment. Payments just went out for the first year of the programme, which has drawn up additional interest.”
Farmer-centric certification
The company’s incentive scheme, AgreenaCarbon, quantifies carbon emission reduction and removals for farmers at the field-level through their transition of regenerative agriculture processes and issues certificates for each annual cycle. The certificates can be kept by the farmer for their own offset purposes or be sold onto the voluntary carbon market to companies that are looking to offset their own practices.
With farmers now participating in the programme from 12 countries across Europe, the company says that its farmer-centric approach in honouring the entrepreneurial decision making of each farmer what to do with their certificates has been paramount to its success.
For more information on Agreena and its carbon platform visit: https://staging-agreena.kinsta.cloud/
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Carbon farming crops to be sown now if a profit is to be reaped this year
Carbon farming crops to be sown now if a profit is to be reaped this year
The market for carbon credits in U.K. agriculture is growing at a steadfast rate, and soil carbon certification company Agreena says it is experiencing increased interest among farmers taking the green transition into their own hands. Farmers who want to reap the extra benefits regenerative agriculture practices must sign up this month to participate in this year’s harvest through the private sector incentive scheme.
According to European-wide soil carbon certification company Agreena, farmers interested in picking up extra profits for climate-friendly practices must register fields to participate prior to the company’s June 30 cutoff. Their marketplace for farmers to generate carbon certificates follows the same annual harvest cycle that agriculture already knows from arable farming.
“Farmers are used to sowing a large part of their crops in the spring and harvesting them in the autumn. Now you must remember another crop in your fields: CO2”, says Oliver Clarke, UK manager at Agreena. “Although the transition to regenerative agricultural practices can be costly, farmers now can make a profit on it through private sector investment. Payments just went out for the first year of the programme, which has drawn up additional interest.”
Read the article at Agronomist & Arable Farmer
Press Release: Danish Agro and Agreena enter partnership on carbon certificates
PRESS RELEASE
4 May 2022
Danish Agro and Agreena enter partnership on carbon certificates
The agricultural group Danish Agro and Agreena, which facilitates carbon certificate trading, have just entered a partnership. The two companies will jointly spread awareness of climate-friendly cultivation practices and the associated opportunity of issuing carbon certificates to farmers.
Danish Agro is dedicated to supporting farmers in the green transition. For example, through regenerative agricultural practices, farmers can sequester carbon and store it in the soil. Such a transition requires investments on the farm. This is precisely why Group CEO of Danish Agro, Henning Haahr, sees exciting opportunities with this agreement.
“Many customers have encouraged us to have a closer look at carbon certificates, and in our view, they represent a real opportunity for individual farmers to finance the green transition”, says Henning Haahr and continues:
“Agreena has developed a professional platform for data collection, verification, and issuance of carbon certificates. They have been a responsible player in the process of developing and strengthening soil carbon certificate trading. We see great potential value for the farmers and would like to develop the opportunities together with Agreena. One of Agreena’s great strengths is that the farmer remains in full control of what he wants to do with his certificates. He can sell them, keep them, or ask Agreena to sell them for him. It is up to the individual farmer to decide, and it is with him the value of the climate effort lands, which has been important to us”, he says.
Initially, the focus is on farmers in Denmark and Baltic countries, but the plan is to spread the partnership to Danish Agro group’s entire business area.
Ida Boesen, co-founder and director at Agreena, is looking forward to the collaboration.
“This marks the beginning of a long-term partnership and is a major step for Danish agriculture, which has the potential to be at the forefront of the sustainable transition. It represents Denmark’s private sector working in collaboration to take the lead and bring innovative climate solutions in the market”, she says and continues:
“Through our partnership, Danish Agro and Agreena are enabling a transition that will bring extra value to farmers. This can create long-term climate impacts as well as future increased profitability due to lower fuel and labour costs, improved soil quality, higher water retention capacity and nutrient content, and increased biodiversity”, she concludes.
Any contracts for the carbon certificate programme will be concluded with Agreena, which is accredited to the international standard ISO 14064. The company’s certification programme and carbon certificates are third-party verified by Det Norske Veritas (DNV).
For further information, please contact:
Søren Møgelvang Nielsen
Group Director, Communication & Marketing, Danish Agro Tel. +45 2332 8274
Erica Johnson
Sustainability Affairs Officer, Agreena Tel. + 45 3152 4980
About the Danish Agro group
The Danish Agro group comprises several agro-industrial companies in Denmark and abroad. They all have one overriding objective: to contribute to value-creating solutions for individual farms in close collaboration with customers. The Group mainly sells feed mixtures, raw material and vitamin mixtures, fertiliser, plant protection products, seed grain and energy, and also buys crops from the agricultural sector. In addition, the Group represents several strong machinery brands for agriculture and operates an extensive chain of hobby and leisure retail stores. The Danish Agro group currently employs approximately 5,000 people, and in 2022 its turnover will be around EUR 5.6 billion.
About Agreena
Agreena was founded by visionary agriculture and FinTech specialists and started as a digital trading platform intended to make grains trading more democratic and efficient. Today, Agreena is one of the first platforms across Europe to facilitate issuing of and trading in carbon certificates for farmers. Agreena puts the farmers first and helps them to a successful transition of their agricultural practices. More than 150 farmers from ten countries have already transitioned to more climate-friendly agricultural practices through Agreena’s carbon programme. The programme follows the crop year and thus allows the farmers to reap the value of their climate efforts on an annual basis. The programme is also ISO 14064-2 certified and applies internationally recognised protocols and calculation methods.
Webinar: Find out how to increase soil carbon
Soil carbon farming: What's in it for me?
Register now and join us for this this webinar hosted by Farmers Weekly, in association with Agreena, on Thursday 19th May to find out everything you need to know about soil carbon farming.
Soil carbon farming: What's in it for me?
Thursday 19th May
5pm - 6:15pm
The importance of agricultural soil as a store for tonnes of carbon each year is growing in emphasis, but what is soil carbon? And what are the opportunities and risks surrounding monetisation of carbon credits?
Join us on the 12th of May as we provide answers to these questions. We will be exploring soil carbon farming further, not only as a possible future revenue stream, but also in terms of how regenerative farming practices can help store carbon to improve soil health and overall productivity.
Our panel of experts will be debating the the dos and don’ts of soil carbon farming and discussing:
- What is soil carbon farming?
- Why is it important for farmers?
- How can you increase soil carbon?
- What are the opportunities and risks surrounding monetisation of carbon credits?
- How much control do farmers have over carbon certificates?
Carbon-credit trading is set to hit $50 billion by 2030. Here are 11 of the hottest startups working to scale the voluntary carbon market.
Carbon-credit trading is set to hit $50 billion by 2030. Here are 11 of the hottest startups working to scale the voluntary carbon market.
The carbon market is split in two. The compliance side is driven by legislative obligations placed on businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. The voluntary side grew out of demands from consumers that the companies they buy from operate in the most carbon-neutral way possible.
Read the article at Businessinsider.com
The Tech Talks Daily Podcast episode 1914: Agreena – Agritech and the rise of Carbon Farming
The Tech Talks Daily Podcast episode 1914: Agreena – Agritech and the rise of Carbon Farming
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Women scaling impact for the climate with Agritech platform
Women scaling impact for the climate with Agritech platform
On International Women’s Day we focus on Agreena, an agtech platform created by female entrepreneurs Julie Koch Fahler and Ida Boesen. They offer farmers and traders a neutral platform to buy and sell grains, and help farmers getting started with carbon credits.
Female entrepreneurs Julie Koch Fahler and Ida Boesen stepped into their position as market disruptors with an innovative commodity trading platform for farmers in 2018. They combined their experience within the technology (Julie) and agriculture (Ida) industries to build a solution that would support Danish farmers in maximising their thin margins.
In 2021 the startup evolved into Agreena, adding a soil carbon certification platform to the techstack, AgreenaCarbon, and became one of Europe’s first internationally accredited certification programmes in soil carbon sequestration.
Carbon certificates
Through its programme, Agreena mints, verifies, and sells third-party verified carbon certificates to the voluntary carbon market for farmers that have transitioned to regenerative agriculture practises with the platform.
Today, the company is operating in 10 countries across the pan-European market and has supported more than 160 farmers to join the green economy in their transition to sustainable agriculture. Agreena closed its € 20-Million Series A round last month and was recently recognised by Financial Times’ Sifted as one of the “Startups to Watch” in the Agritech sector.
Enhance profitability and sustainability for farmers
“Innovation doesn’t often come from within an ingrained industry. We have insights both within and outside of the farming industry, and this sets us apart to create new paradigms. We will continue developing products where there are opportunities to enhance profitability and sustainability for farmers – because this is the future of farming,” Ida Boesen said.
“We started the company to digitalise and democratise one of the biggest industries in the world. Agriculture is such an integral part of, and costly affair, for our society – and it has so much optimisation potential. Right now, we can see impact when driving around and seeing fields with cover crops, but in the future, the soil reaping biodiversity benefits, the climate responding to massive carbon sequestration, and farmers acting independently with fair, market-driven financing – these are the long term impacts of Agreena initiatives that I am really looking forward to seeing,“ Julie Koch Fahler said.
Read the full article at Futurefarming.com
Newsweek: Mobilizing farmers to decarbonize agriculture
Newsweek: Mobilizing farmers to decarbonize agriculture
Denmark is cultivating innovative agtech solutions that are speeding up the adoption of regenerative practices in farming.
Agriculture is responsible for around one-fifth of Denmark’s total carbondioxide (CO2) emissions and its decarbonization is a priority for a country seeking to become carbon neutral by 2050.
In October, the Danish parliament ratified plans to reduce the sector’s greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 55 percent within 10 years, pledging funding of nearly $600 million for green farming technologies to help achieve this. One new solution that is rapidly being adopted by farmers in Denmark and Europe comes from the startup Agreena.