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Whose Carbon Is It Anyway? Community Rights, Market Integrity, and the Future of Carbon Projects

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 […]
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The Climate Finance Coming Into Africa is Solving the Wrong Problem

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, […]
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Africa’s farms are ready. Are your capital structures?

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 […]
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Everyone Else Is Building Swap Stations. Kiri EV Handed Riders a Charger: #SankalpChangemakers features Christopher Maara of Kiri EV

By Margaret Nakunza Most countries electrify their roads from the top down. Government buys electric buses, subsidises electric cars, and waits for the technology to trickle to everyone else. Kenya did the opposite. The vehicles leading its transition are not buses or sedans but boda bodas — the motorcycle taxis that move people and parcels through every Kenyan […]
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What No One Tells You About Fundraising in Africa: Lessons from the Founder’s Table

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 & […]
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The $1M-$5M Gap: How can we Build the Missing Middle?

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 […]
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What India’s Soil Has Been Trying to Tell Us Since the Green Revolution — And How ScaNxt Is Responding With Data and AI

What India’s Soil Has Been Trying to Tell Us Since the Green Revolution — And How ScaNxt Is Responding With Data and AI Green Revolution fed a nation. It also quietly poisoned the ground it stood on. From the 1960s onward, state-subsidised urea and chemical pesticides transformed Indian agriculture — tripling production, averting famine, earning […]
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The Bridge That Was Always Missing – #SankalpChangemakers features Yosha Gupta, CEO & Founder, MeMeraki

India has approximately 3,000 traditional art forms. Most people would struggle to name ten. This is not a failure of interest. Collectors in London and Singapore have been paying serious money for Indian folk art for decades. It is a failure of infrastructure. The Pattachitra master in Raghurajpur and the collector in Kensington had no reliable way to find each […]
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