Conservation agriculture and agricultural business development are priority topics for Black Pearl. With increasingly unpredictable weather patterns around the globe, farmers face greater challenges every year with getting their crops grown and to market. Black Pearl works with local organizations to help farmers grow more food, link to supply chains, and improve food storage capacity so that we have more food and less food waste.
Climate Smart Agriculture
Black Pearl consultants possess wide-ranging experience promoting resilient, environmentally friendly agriculture in sectors ranging from livestock to rice, maize, and aquaculture, including pre- and postharvest development. We are experts in agricultural value chain upgrading and helping smallholder farmers reduce pollution and carbon emissions while boosting yields, reducing risk, and improving market position. We promote climate-smart good agricultural practices (GAP), including organic growing and branding and the use of eco-friendly inputs and climate optimized crop varieties to improve food security and nutrition while raising farmer incomes.
Black Pearl consultants apply agtech to promote innovation across agricultural market systems. Our expertise includes the application of digitization, machine leaning, and the use of new information and communication technologies (ICT) to enable farmers to raise livestock and grow crops more efficiently, sustainably, and responsibly. We combine remote sensing data with local crop and weather data to help farmers protect their crops against extreme weather, manage risk, and get access to new credit and insurance products.
Black Pearl offers expertise in policy and best practices in the areas of WASH and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) to help farmers adjust to climate change and sustainably manage scarce water resources. Our consultants can help farmers adopt new irrigation technologies, implement water conservation schemes, and adopt saline resistant and drought tolerant crop varieties. We support water management to preserve the environment, advance climate adaptation, and improve health while also boosting crop yields.