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Across Syngenta Foundation's network, more than 100 million smallholder farmers operate outside formal economic systems, not for lack of effort, but for lack of trusted, verifiable agricultural data. Land boundaries go undocumented or disputed, sustainability practices are never recorded, and yield histories sit fragmented across disconnected systems. The result is that farmers are locked out of credit, insurance, and premium markets.
Agri-Entrepreneurs (AEs) help bridge this gap through local facilitation and advisory services, but without reliable data infrastructure they remain constrained too. And for lenders, insurers, and supply chain participants, the absence of verifiable data translates directly into higher costs, greater risk, and no viable path to scale. The core challenge is consistent: no verifiable land ownership or boundaries, no historical sustainability index or yield records, exclusion from formal financial and premium markets, and high institutional risk that demands heavy manual due diligence.
To address this, Syngenta Foundation, together with 5amEarth (Yoram Ben Zvi), AIQUANT, Anastasia Labs, and Andamio, has implemented a Cardano-based satellite oracle that transforms fragmented farm data into persistent, tamper-resistant digital records. This is not a single application. It functions as shared public infrastructure. Verified land boundaries, sustainability histories, and crop data are recorded once and reused across finance, insurance, government programs, and agricultural trade, enabling independent verification and long-term auditability without centralized control.
Trusted data is what unlocks inclusive agricultural ecosystems. Verified records open access to credit, insurance, compliance, and premium markets, with the goal of increasing farmer income by up to 100% within five years. AEs, in turn, gain new service offerings and earn an incremental USD 120 to 140 per month through facilitation and advisory work. For institutions, independent and verifiable data lowers due diligence costs and sharpens risk assessment for lenders and insurers.
The approach is already proven in the field. Mainnet deployment and initial field trials are complete, with over 15,000 farms now registered on-chain, and the infrastructure is built to scale, supporting expansion to one million farmers without a proportional rise in operating costs.
The infrastructure is in production and the initial results are documented. Whether it delivers measurable benefit at scale will depend on continued field validation and the willingness of financial and supply chain institutions to rely on the data it produces.