Cultiba

CUSTOM AGRICULTURE CHALLENGE; COLOMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Micro-forestry market bundle.

Learn more about the Custom Agriculture Challenge and why distributing proven agricultural interventions can greatly improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Cultiba empowers Colombian smallholder farmers to engage in sustainable micro-forestry.

The average Colombian farmer is unable to engage in sustainable commercial forestry because they lack capital, quality inputs, technical expertise, and direct linkages to market. Cultiba empowers Colombian smallholder farmers to make use of their unproductive land to produce balsa wood for sale in industrial markets and increase their income. They deliver a proven micro-forestry partnership model where smallholder farmers provide land, labor, and security, and we deliver inputs, training, and access to fair market prices.

Cultibas’s CEO, Diego Hakspiel, has over 8 years of experience in the development sector working with the private sector, social enterprises, UN agencies, and INGOs in East Africa and Latin America.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 500 smallholder farmers within 6 months

• 16,000 balsa seedlings planted within 6 months

• Secure offtake agreement for initial plantation (value of $400,000) within 6 months

• Reach 1,000 smallholder farmers by the end of year 1

• Reach 5,000 smallholder farmers by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Diego Hakspiel - CEO

#TRANSPARENTIVAL

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE; COLOMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Existing government petition system to fight corruption.

Learn more about the Transparency Challenge and how citizen reporting platforms can be used to hold government officials accountable and reduce corruption.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

#Transparentival will be a cooperative campaign to educate, motivate and support people to fight corruption in Colombia.

In this project we will use the right to petition as a tool to fight corruption. The right to petition allows people to access public information, challenge abuses of power and report negligence from authorities.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Send 1,000 corruption reports using right to petition during pilot

• Reach 10,000 people with information on government petitions during pilot

• Raise an additional $15,000 during pilot

• Reach 50,000 people with information on government petitions by end of Y1

• Reach 100,000 people with information on government petitions by end of Y2

FOUNDING TEAM

Margarita Méndez Sandoval - Director

Luke Hammett - Project Leader