CIBO launches impact platform for regenerative agriculture

CIBO, the science-based software company that provides the agriculture value chain with solutions for powering grower-facing programs, announced today the availability of CIBO Impact, the industry's first fully integrated software platform for agricultural sustainability.

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CIBO Impact helps enterprises develop and deliver regenerative programs at scale, including registry-verified carbon credit generation, Scope-3 emissions accounting and reduction, low-carbon intensity feedstocks, and USDA Climate Smart projects.

"CIBO Impact is the first comprehensive solution for managing large-scale regenerative agriculture programs," said CIBO CEO Daniel Ryan. "From grower identification, pre-qualification, and enrollment, to practice verification and monitoring, to quantification and reporting on carbon, CIBO gives our partners the ability to deliver results at scale."

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CIBO Impact supports multiple partner needs and their sustainability initiatives, for example:

• Program Sponsors: Enterprises that provide incentives to drive practice changes to reduce emissions in their supply shed or generate carbon credits.
• Platform Partners: Enterprises that use the platform to deploy and manage their own regenerative ag initiatives to growers in their ecosystem.
• Grower Network: Grower-facing entities that syndicate Sponsor programs to their growers.

For the first time, the CIBO Impact platform brings together a scalable programs management engine supported by advanced carbon modeling, practice verification, and reporting capabilities. These are delivered to end users through a modern and easy-to-use UI or delivered to applications via API. Features include:

• Fields: Immediate field-level insights, including carbon footprint, carbon intensity, historical and in-season practice verifications, yield, what-if scenarios, and program eligibility determinations.
• Programs: Implement and manage incentive programs with a rule set for qualification, an online enrollment workflow, and ongoing program execution and reporting.
• Supply Sheds: Analyze entire supply sheds, including total emissions, carbon intensity (emission factors), practice history, comparisons, and what-if scenarios to support GHG inventories and claims.

CIBO Impact is powered by three underlying technologies:

• An ensemble of advanced crop, carbon, and ecosystems models that quantify the impact of agriculture, in-real-time and across scales.
• AI-driven computer vision that uses satellite imagery provides historical and in-season management practices of farm fields at scale.
• Robust cloud-based infrastructure that allows users to easily deploy programs through large grower networks to understand carbon emissions and the impact of practices without requiring grower data or time-consuming questionnaires.