Spowdi Session

“How fast are we moving to bridge the gap between financing and the small-hold farmer? What’s the cost of not accelerating what we are doing?”

That is the questions asked at the beginning of Spowdi’s interactive COP29 session ‘A Proven Business Case: 300% more food, 80% less water and no CO2’. During the next 1 hour and 40 minutes, the session took a deep dive into the food-climate agenda, exploring a proven and scalable model based on building resilience and creating socio-economic value throughout the value chain, starting with the last mile; ie. the small-hold farmer. During the session we got to hear the perspectives of multiple key stakeholders in the transition, from financing institutions to implementing organisations, on how we can achieve true large-scale impact.

IFC Session

Nov 19 IFC’s COP29 session ‘Using Climate Financing to Enhance Water Conservation through Precision Irrigation’ took place at the World Bank Group Pavilion, which Spowdi’s Henrik Johansson attended as a speaker. During the session, he got to share his insights about the important role of climate finance in the efforts to scale innovative precision irrigation solutions that can transform agriculture, making it resilient and regenerative.

International Solar Alliance event

Nov 18 Yesterday at COP29, Spowdi’s Henrik Johansson was invited to speak at a session hosted by International Solar Alliance. The session, ‘Global Solar Facility – Catalysing Solar Investments Across the Globe’, provided various perspectives on innovative financing mechanisms and sustainable growth strategies within solar investments. When asked about his experience of entering new markets, Henrik discussed the need to shift focus in order to achieve permanent change:

“So far, we haven’t seen that much focus on scalability. But we do see the absence of commercial thinking throughout the value chain, and because of that – an absence of solutions for permanent change … Our focus is transforming small hold farmers into Impact Generators by giving them the right tool-kit and knowledge to become sustainable, independent, self-sufficient and profitable businessmen and women, permanently.”

EQT Session

Nov 13 Spowdi’s CEO Henrik Johansson spoke at the session ‘Accelerating our collective impact by fast-tracking climate tech to scale’ hosted by EQT. The insightful and interactive session focused on the urgent need to accelerate investment and deployment of climate technologies, exploring how investors and policymakers can aid them in their journey to scale.

Meet our Smart Farmers

This is Bhavnaben, one of our Smart Farmers from India. At Spowdi’s interactive session at COP29, you will have the opportunity to hear her and other small-hold farmers’ stories about making the transition toward Smart Farming.