Year: 2026

A Sankalp Dialogues panel of developers, investors, and lawyers across India and Kenya asks who carbon markets are really working for By Vaishnavi Sinha Walk through a farm in West Bengal or a forest plot in Meghalaya enrolled in a carbon project, and the biggest question in carbon markets isn’t answered in the methodology documents. It’s answered in whether the person […]

Africa contributes less than 4% of global cumulative emissions yet bears some of the heaviest costs of climate disruption — in agricultural productivity, in water systems, in the health infrastructure that climate shocks overwhelm precisely when most needed. The capital flowing into African climate is largely structured for markets that don’t look like Kenya, Rwanda, […]

Africa’s food system enterprises are performing. Across staple grains, aquaculture, agroforestry commodities, high-nutrition legumes and dairy, founders are building real businesses, producing food, absorbing climate shocks, creating jobs. The pipeline is not the problem. What the agriculture sessions at Sankalp 2026 kept returning to was the distance between a performing enterprise and the capital it […]

Last week, we hosted our Founder’s Table — a candid conversation between Yi Li, founder of Farmworks, and Darren Lobo, Director at Aavishkaar Capital. What emerged wasn’t a polished pitch masterclass. It was something more useful: hard-won, honest lessons about what fundraising actually looks like when you’re building in Kenya or across the African continent. By Punita Maheshwari Meet the Speakers Yi Li, Co-Founder & […]

Insights from the inaugural Sankalp Dialogues webinar By Ankit Gupta & Punita Maheshwari Across India, Africa, and other emerging markets, many promising enterprises reach a familiar crossroads. They have proven technology, decent customer base, and demonstrated impact. Yet when it comes time to scale, capital becomes harder and not easier to access. This is the […]