Imagine a world where farming actually heals our planet. A Natural Revolution that allows both nature, farmers, and businesses to thrive and prosper thanks to climate positive growing methods.
Now imagine what getting involved can do for the ESG efforts and impact of your company. At GrowGrounds we make it happen, and we invite you to partner with us.
We help the coffee industry convert to nature and climate friendly agroforestry.
Our method restores nature, significantly reduces CO2 emissions and ultimately eliminates the need for fertilizers and pesticides.
Furthermore, it improves the livelihoods of coffee farmers by offering them new opportunities to create value and increase their revenue.
What does agroforestry do for nature, climate, farmers, and businesses?
We help coffee farmers convert to carbon-positive agroforestry by planting trees, training farmers and promoting organic farming.
Through this conversion we improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, and capture CO2 turning coffee into a carbon-positive crop.
Co-founder Christina Singh, Nicaragua
Captured carbon is converted into Carbon Reduction Units (CRU) for insetting or trading through climate partners.
Farm improvements and new revenue streams, including 80 % of the CRU’s revenue flows back to the farmers enabling them to further improve farming practices and livelihoods.
We help coffee farmers convert to carbon-positive agroforestry by planting trees, training farmers and promoting organic farming.
Through this conversion we improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, and capture CO2 turning coffee into a carbon-positive crop.
Captured carbon is converted into Carbon Reduction Units (CRU) for insetting or trading through climate partners.
Co-founder Christina Singh, Nicaragua
Farm improvements and new revenue streams, including 80 % of the CRU’s revenue flows back to the farmers enabling them to further improve farming practices and livelihoods.
See below how our solutions can assist you growing your business.
Curious to learn what’s in it for you and your business? Teaming up with GrowGrounds will benefit your ESG efforts ensuring that you make an actual impact on both nature, climate, and social justice. Our experts also offer ESG consultancy including scoping, strategy and implementation.
You can reduce your company’s carbon footprint and bring hope to the world’s coffee farmers by partnering with us.
We assist coffee farmers in the conversion of farming into biodiverse agroforestry systems. Through this proces we capture carbon.
We offer advice that strengthens your skills and ensures that you understand legislation and compliance.
We help companies determine, implement, deliver and report on their ESG strategies.
We are corporate activists. We see corporations as a leading force for change.
Learn about our Nature-Growing system and how we can lead for change. And become a corporate activist too.
Your business can profit by growing nature and restoring coffee as a product of nature together with GrowGrounds.
“We are looking forward to the collaboration in the coming years around Stellini’s long-term strategic sustainability strategy with Lars Aaen Thøgersen, Poul David Videbæk and GrowGrounds. With a large investment of time and money and the best resources on board, we look forward to being able to make a noticeable difference going forward.”
Thomas Polano
CEO & Partner, Stellini Kaffe
“With GrowGrounds and their extensive experience with ESG scoping, strategy and implementation, we have added vital tools to our toolbox. By understanding the ESG complexities, challenges and opportunities we can now strengthen our efforts to help companies grow their top-line by using their existing resources in new ways.”
Gaute Høgh
Founder, CO/PLUS
“The coffee industry is facing a series of issues, which we can only target by tackling the real problems at their roots. Farmers are getting poorer. And older. Nature is under pressure and increases in carbon emissions are threatening our climate. On he other hand, and combined, these challenges hold opportunities for change. This is the whole concept of GrowGrounds, and we see their approach as a severe and long-term investment in our value chain.”
Anders Fredriksson
CEO, Löfbergs Group
Coffee used to prosper as a wild- and forest-grown crop, but in the name of efficiency, humans deforested huge areas to create monocultured fields lacking biodiversity.
Today’s farming methods contribute to climate change, the farmers operate at a loss within an unfair value chain and if we continue like this the area available for coffeegrowing is forecast to halve by 2050.
By converting monoculture coffee farming into carbon capturing agroforestry systems we grow nature and help grow our client’s business.
We grow nature by restoring forests and introducing regenerative agroforestry systems. We further provide modern equipment and training in sustainable farming techniques to increase farmers’ livelihoods.
The carbon emissions we avoid and capture are sold to our clients as carbon credits and 80% of the sales are paid directly back to the farmers.
That way we restore coffee as a product of nature and turn what is preferred by nature into what is preferred by people.
GrowGrounds is founded by senior level coffee value chain experts.
Lars Aaen Thøgersen
Chief Executive Officer
Award winning change maker and ESG specialist with +20 years of senior management experience in the world of coffee. Focus on sustainable business development, commercial growth strategy, communication innovation and entrepreneurship.
Poul David Videbæk
Chief Commercial Officer
Serial entrepreneur who has built several successful international companies. Passionate about sustainable development, interplay between people, planet and technology, for tangible impact.
Christina Singh
Chief Operations Officer
Experienced professional dedicated to improving rural livelihoods while restoring nature. Passionate about sustainable and value-based business development. Focused on creating long-term partnerships based on understanding, efficiency, trust and transparency.
Imagine a future where farming helps heal our planet. Let’s introduce you to an innovative farming method that enhances soil health, increases biodiversity, and reduces our carbon footprint. Our philosophy is simple: We are Nature-Growing. We grow business by growing nature.
As we face global challenges such as climate change and loss of biodiversity, adopting sustainable agricultural practices becomes more crucial than ever. Syntropic carbon farming is new and a unique farming method that strengthens biodiversity, reduces carbon emissions and even more important: It brings incentives to farmers to (re-)establish and nurture native nature.
But what is syntropic carbon farming and how does it affect the coffee farming industry? Read on to discover how we make a difference with syntropic carbon farming.
We work to support farmers in securing and improving their business. We do not buy up land or productions abroad. All the coffee farms we work with own their own land. They, themselves are the owners and receive the profit and can make their own decisions.
By investing in nature, we grow living income opportunities for farmers and farmer communities. Our investments always go directly to the farmers in order to grow nature and by doing so, to improve their living income and livelihood.
At GrowGrounds, we have many years of experience with ESG strategy development, strategic planning, and final execution. We are experienced in business development and know how challenging it can be to make the big decisions about the company’s future. And we have in-depth knowledge of coffee, the industry, and the coffee supply chain.
We are happy to have a non-binding chat with you about your challenges and opportunities.
We analyse your coffee sourcing with regards to the climate mitigation potential:
The projects generate impact. You receive the impact data:
The data is displayed on a dashboard:
Your business can be part of our mission too.
Who can join: Coffee Industry
Corporations working in coffee can join our efforts in coffee growing regions.
We enable industrial changes by working largescale with coffee farmers and farmer organisations globally.
We connect the impact work with your supply chain and support you in bringing carbon-positive coffee products to market.
Who can join: All Industries
The conversion of coffee farming from traditional monoculture to biodiverse agroforestry systems is a carbon sink.
Farmers are financially incentivized to grow and maintain their ecosystems as carbon farming becomes part of their portefolio.
Let the carbon captured assist you in meeting your corporate ESG targets.
Project:
Syntropic coffee farming in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Program of Activities):
“With GrowGrounds and their extensive experience with ESG scoping, strategy and implementation, we have added vital tools to our toolbox. By understanding the ESG complexities, challenges and opportunities we can now strengthen our efforts to help companies grow their top-line by using their existing resources in new ways.”
Gaute Høgh
Founder, CO/PLUS
In collaboration with coffee farmers all over the world, our goal is to eliminate coffee’s negative CO2 impact and restore nature. This return to coffee’s natural order is not just good for nature, but also good for people and business.
GrowGrounds helps companies and brands with business development and impact improvements in their value chains. See some of our cases here.
Coffee used to prosper as a wild- and forest-grown crop, but in the name of efficiency, humans deforested huge areas to create monocultured fields lacking biodiversity.
Today’s farming methods contribute to climate change,
the farmers operate at a loss within an unfair value chain
and if we continue like this the area available for coffeegrowing
is forecast to halve by 2050.
By converting monoculture coffee farming into carbon capturing agroforestry systems we grow nature and help grow our client’s business. We grow nature by restoring forests and introducing organic agroforestry systems. We further provide modern equipment and training in sustainable farming techniques to increase farmers’ livelihoods. The carbon emissions we avoid and capture are sold to our clients as carbon credits and 80% of the sales are paid directly back to the farmers.
That way we restore coffee as a product of nature and turn what is preferred by nature into what is preferred by people.
