Capital for Adaptation: India’s Climate-Resilient Agrifood Transition
Financing India’s Climate-Resilient Agrifood Transition
Across India, a growing number of enterprises and innovators are developing solutions to help smallholder farmers respond to climate risk, improve productivity, strengthen livelihoods and participate more effectively in evolving agrifood markets.
Yet too few promising solutions successfully move from early validation to sustained adoption and investable scale.
The challenge is not simply a shortage of innovation or capital. It is the absence of a connected pathway between solutions that are technically promising, products that farmers can and will adopt, enterprises that are ready to grow, and capital structured around the realities of smallholder markets.
During Climate Week NYC, the Evergreen Innovation Platform, Inkludo Impact and Pearl Cohen will convene a curated group of investors, philanthropic funders, development finance institutions, entrepreneurs, corporations, farmer-facing organizations and ecosystem leaders to explore how this pathway can be built.
The discussion will focus on what it takes to move farmer-centered climate adaptation solutions from pilot-stage promise to credible, investable scale.
Evergreen Innovation Platform (EIP) accelerates the adoption of practical, scalable agricultural innovations to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes, productivity, and climate resilience. EIP identifies promising technologies, adapts them to farmer and market needs, and supports commercialization through research, validation, partnerships, and market development. Its ecosystem connects innovators with a network of more than two million smallholder farmers across diverse agricultural markets.
Inkludo Impact Foundation catalyzes philanthropic capital to help innovative social enterprises overcome critical capital and capacity gaps. Through its GEAR initiative, Inkludo pairs first-loss guarantees with technical assistance to de-risk lending, unlock affordable credit, strengthen enterprise capacity, and expand market access. Its approach enables mission-driven businesses to scale sustainable solutions that build resilience across underserved rural and urban communities in India.
Pearl Cohen is an international law firm with offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London, and Munich. Representing innovation-driven companies, inventors, and their investors, we serve clients worldwide, from Fortune 500 companies to promising start-ups. Our professionals come from an impressive array of academic and professional backgrounds, serving as your partner in the business of innovation.