South African farmers facing steep costs to switch to regenerative farming systems will soon be able to receive pre-payments for future carbon credits.

Swedbank, the leading bank in the Nordics and Baltics, has announced a new partnership with eAgronom, a climate tech startup founded in Estonia with global operations.

Leading global carbon project developer and climate solutions provider South Pole and Agtech company eAgronom are partnering to accelerate the uptake of climate-smart farming across Europe, Africa and beyond.

eAgronom started as a digitized field diary, but we have grown over the years and will continue to grow. We succeed because we listen to our farmers and if we can help, we will. The reason we are adding telematics data to eAgronom is also that we listen.

Agriculture continues to evolve in practice and purpose. Carbon offset farming or the practice of sequestering carbon in agricultural soils is on the rise due to multiple factors related to the environment and farm profit.

Managing the soil is a big part of farming. In recent years there’s been a rapid shift to low-carbon agriculture. This is an opportunity for farmers to focus on practices and innovations that help soils become more sustainable for farmers and the environment, particularly in storing carbon to manage rising greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.