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Smart Cool Markets: Linking Farmers and Buyers with Coldtivate
Your VCCA will soon connect Nigerian farmers to markets and delivers fresh produce to consumers through sustainable cold storage and its data-driven mobile app, Coldtivate.
Tailoring Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant to West Africa
Your VCCA is addressing the unique challenges of post-harvest losses in West Africa by assessing local farmers’ cooling needs and focusing on diversifying crops, particularly fruits and vegetables. By integrating both active and passive cooling solutions, Your VCCA aims to enhance food security and boost incomes for farmers.
Webinar: Unlocking Finance and Scalability for Cold Rooms-As-A-Service
Your VCCA’s webinar series will delve into the current financing landscape, present various perspectives from financial and refrigeration companies, and foster dialogue among financiers, cooling companies, and the research community.
From Harvest to Market: A Guide and Webinar for Sustainable Cold Room Management
Your VCCA and its partners have launched an Operators Manual accompanied by a webinar delving into post-harvest technologies and best practices to extend the shelf life of crops stored in multi-commodity cold rooms.
Coldtivate launches the farmers’ interface
Coldtivate introduces its farmers’ interface, enabling cold rooms users to remotely stay updated on the remaining storage life of their crops.
How can cooling solutions be made gender-responsive?
By exploring data gaps and needs from diverse perspectives, the webinar aims to identify the necessary data collection methods and types to advance our shared objective of universal access to cooling.
Data for Agricultural Resilience: What is Your VCCA’s new Impact Dashboard?
With support from the Climate Ledger Initiative, Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant is integrating a new Impact Dashboard into its Coldtivate app, enabling companies to track and analyse the impact of their operations on business, users, and the environment.
Webinar: Servitisation and Digitalisation to fight food loss
The webinar explores how combining servitisation and digitalisation can boost agricultural resilience, highlighting innovative solutions that help farmers adapt and succeed in the digital economy.
COP27 Webinar: Strengthening farmers’ resilience through climate risk insurance
This article examines the complex question “Who pays for climate risk insurance?”, exploring various payment models in the Global South, from government subsidies to private sector pre-financing, and discussing the pros and cons of each approach.
Webinar: How can you join our Incubator Programme?
Who is eligible for the Your VCCA Incubator and how can you apply?
Your VCCA Team Visits Project Sites in Nigeria
Teams from BASE and Empa visited Nigeria between 25 October to 4 November to launch the Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant (Your VCCA) project and meet local stakeholders to grasp the ground realities that will shape the future of the project.
New open-source technologies universalising access to cooling
The Your VCCA project team from Empa and BASE have made openly available several new technologies in the framework of the data.org project.
Your VCCA Launches GIS Map to Identify Cold Room Locations
This web application has been designed as part of the Your VCCA Nigeria project. It is meant to help stakeholders realise the potential of sustainable cooling solutions throughout Nigeria. It features GIS layers showing open-source data relative to crop production, climate, infrastructure, as well as shelf-life gain maps and potential cold-room location maps which were developed by the Your VCCA project team.
BASE and Empa release the first version of the Coldtivate App in Nigeria
BASE and Empa are proud to release Coldtivate, an open access, data-science-based mobile application that provides access to postharvest expertise and allows farmers to maximise benefits from cooling.
Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant: Our First Six Months in India
The Your VCCA app equips the cold room users with pre- and post-harvest expertise and market intelligence to secure the best possible price for their produce and escape the vicious cycle of poverty.
Your VCCA launches Interactive Map to Identify Cold Room Locations in India
To improve food security, increase smallholders’ income, and reduce food loss while mitigating the impact on the environment, we designed our web map to help stakeholders understand the potential for sustainable cooling solutions across India.
New open-source technologies universalising access to cooling
The Your VCCA project team from Empa and BASE have made openly available several new technologies in the framework of the data.org project. Learn more about them by here.
BASE and Empa release the first version of the Coldtivate app in India
BASE and Empa are proud to release Coldtivate, an open access, data-science-based mobile application that provides access to postharvest expertise and allows farmers to maximise benefits from cooling.
YourVCCA launches Project Video
The YourVCCA team launches the project video and shares its learnings from the mission trip to India.
Identifying Optimal Cold Room Locations in Himachal Pradesh
Empa and BASE teams develop an algorithm to identify optimal cold room locations in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Meet the winners: Your VCCA Incubator
Your VCCA has identified five among the world’s leading cooling companies in the agricultural value chain to work with under its Incubator Program. Let’s meet them!