🐜🌱 We're a web3 community building frameworks to support stewards of intergenerational wealth. Nowadays market-oriented agriculture incentivizes low-quality short-term production. Agroforestry receives no incentives because it demands initial investment and knowledge for mid to long-term returns. However, such production is beneficial because it is less inputs intensive, sequesters a lot more carbon, cools down local temperatures, lasts for generations and keeps local communities and cultures connected with the natural succession.

We aim to tackle this lack of incentives by experimenting with novel ways to coordinate globally for community agriculture. We are based in Brazil, and thanks to the support from previous Gitcoin rounds we were able to plant a pilot Food Forest (Redemption Hill, Minas Gerais) where we test different uses of web3 tools to recognize and support the agents involved, while understanding mechanisms that could help scale food forest stewardship in a descentralized way.

Examples of mechanisms we have been working on:

Q1 and Q2 2024

• Issued Hypercerts for those planting the agroforest systems, as a way to link initial supporters with future production

• Hosted students and teachers from two schools in the region during one week to experience for the first time the harvests and maintence of a Syntropic System

• Deployed NFTs of agroforest consortiums (Syntropic Nests) on Celo blockchain. These NFTs represent Real World Assets (RWAs) and can be sold to holders as a way to monetize the service of stewardship, to facilitate joint agroforestry ventures and to allow co-ownership of future productions to NFT holders, besides other benefits such as invitation for visits and experiences in loco.
  👆 Above is an example of a standard for Agroforest Systems that makes it easier for global agents to follow up and invest in. 👇 Below is an example of the NFTs deployed on Celo. On the top left of the picture is the position of the consortium in the system (C18) and on the bottom are the different species in it.

• We used NFTs to Recognize the many agents reproducing this culture, from seed providers to local squads, global co-stewards and apprentices.

The goal is to experiment with tracking the chain of humans responsible by the final product, in this case, bananas, and reward them with recognition and shares of the future harvests of bananas🍌 Below are more details on the Nests Splits 👇

• We aquired tools and gear that are distributed as rewards according to the engagement of members.

Q3 and Q4 2024

• To start a communication campaign in Brazil announcing our first educational onboarding program for local stewards to increase their capacity to engage with the regen web3 - Starting in September 2024 First post of the social media campaign, published on August 1st 👇

• To have local seasonal milestones shared in KarmaGAP as a way to attest their completion and build stewards' reputation and facilitate global coordination - To be executed in October 2024

• To support Brazilian local stewards with funds to kickstart and onboard new agroforest systems via a QF round for AgroforestDAO members - To be executed in December 2024

• To plant new Agroforestry Systems in October 2024 following the same documenting procedures of Redemption Hill

Thanks to the Redemption Hill rooted laboratory we were able to create a comprehensive proposition of using web3 tech for community agriculture that is understood by other local stewards we've been inviting to our first cohort of AgroforestDAO apprentices, which will start in September.

Your support during this round will go towards scaling the reach of our educational program, QF round, and improving our digital infrastructure in the second semester of 2024.

Thank you so much for your attention, please support the Food Forest Culture 🐜🌱