Daybreak

Daybreak Foundation

Small farm field prepared for cultivation

Climate action on small farms made practical

Daybreak brings together advanced technology and rural enterprise

Patterned agricultural field after ploughing

Small farms can deliver large impacts

Small-scale farming is the frontline to natural capital and food security

Farmland seen across a rural landscape

Making smart decisions for effective action

Dallas platform guides optimal capital and resource allocation

Agricultural field with cultivated rows

Injecting advanced tech at the village level

The right technology mix to boost farms quickly and profitably

Close view of farmland and soil texture

Propelling change through local enterprise

Unlocking rural talent for community-centered climate action

Mission

Daybreak builds climate technology hubs and a local ecosystem to put farmers on center stage and channel finance and technology directly to climate-smart and nature-positive transformations on large clusters of farms. Our mission is to launch a climate technology hub in every sub-district in India before 2030. Each hub has the potential to deliver climate action on more than 500 farms.

Climate Action

Daybreak hubs promote agroecology on small farms to grow more nutritious foods, and to reduce loss and waste to preserve value, thereby improving the financial capacity of small farms to reinvest in building resilience, restoring ecosystems, and creating nutrition security.

Agroecology

Implement regenerative agriculture practices to increase soil organic matter, improve water efficiency, reduce pollution, increase biodiversity, and restore ecosystem integrity to grow healthier and more nutritious foods.

Nutrition

Introduce the production of more nutritious foods to diversify crops and deliver affordable nutrition security while boosting farm incomes from higher value products.

Waste

Protect the input investment and climate footprint of nutritious foods by reducing pre- and post-harvest losses, preserving food quality, and recycling nutrients from organic by-products to increase farm revenues and profits.

Resilience

Improve farm finances and risk transfer mechanisms, and strengthen farms in the value chain, to support reinvestment in agroecological practices, nutritional security, and climate resilience.

Solutions

Hubs implement advanced technologies to solve for climate action, commercial success, and community development.

Soil Regeneration

Biotechnology and traditional solutions to increase soil organic matter and improve soil health and function.

Protected Cultivation

Advanced growing operations at hubs coupled with low-cost polyhouse models for smallholder communities.

Modernized Storage

Flexible ecological storage solutions for organic produce that eliminate chemicals and preserve nutrition quality.

Value Addition

Innovative farm-gate processing solutions to reduce food loss and increase value.

Clean Energy

Solar-powered solutions for on-farm and off-farm productive use

Nutrient Recycling

Innovative technologies to recapture nutrients in organic waste

Carbon Removal

Carbon capture for application or storage.

Hubs

A climate-positive food system is built upon thriving farms, and climate impact on smallholdings is intertwined with commercial success and community development. Daybreak hubs deliver technologies and services that combine climate, commercial, and community outcomes. Hub success is driven by a systematic process.

Build

Site selection and collaboration with farmer groups to localize strategy and digitize farms. Facility construction, installation and validation of technology assets, and linkages with market partners. Delivery to the hub operations team.

Operate

Hub staffing and ramping up production and services activities through the first year to reach steady-state operations and deliver the full range of climate adaptation solutions to local farms.

Transfer

Recruiting and supporting a talented local entrepreneur to acquire, manage, and expand hub operations and work in partnership with their farm community.