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Pilot Launch | Can an AI Agronomist Help Colombia’s Coffee Farmers Beat the Weather?
Climate variability puts Colombia’s coffee harvest at risk. Through a new pilot with Harvis, Prosper Global Ventures is testing whether AI-powered, hyper-local weather alerts can help farmers act earlier and protect coffee quality.
Pilot Insights | Can AI help improve reforestation? Lessons from Nicaragua
Can AI help forest restoration teams identify where support is needed most? In Nicaragua, Prosper Global Ventures and Taking Root tested how parcel-level insights could help technicians prioritize field visits, revealing the potential of AI to strengthen forest management and the challenges of turning early signals into lasting impact.
Pilot Launch | Making Risk Visible: How Satellite Data and AI Could Unlock Flood Insurance for Mexico’s Small Businesses
For Mexico’s small businesses, flood risk is often invisible until it’s too late. Through a new pilot with Floodbase, we’re testing whether satellite data, AI, and accessible parametric insurance can make that risk visible and help businesses prepare and recover.
Pilot Insights | From Detection to Prediction: What It Takes to Build AI for Wildfires in Latin America
In Misiones, Argentina, Satellites on Fire tested whether AI-powered fire spread prediction could improve wildfire response, revealing what it takes to adapt proven technology to a new context.
Pilot Launch | Small Businesses Prepare for Climate Shocks to Protect their Livelihood and Trade with Anticipatory mindset using AI
Mercy Corps Ventures and Resilience AI are piloting AI-powered, building-level climate risk mapping with artisan communities in India to test whether localized climate intelligence can improve risk awareness and help small businesses prepare before climate shocks disrupt their livelihoods.
Pilot Insights | Building Water Resilience: How Automated Ice Reservoirs Are Buying Time for Mountain Communities
Mercy Corps Ventures, in partnership with Acres of Ice, piloted Automated Ice Reservoirs (AIRs) to store winter water as ice and release it during critical sowing periods, improving water access and helping mountain communities adapt to glacier loss.
Pilot Insights | Scaling Up Anticipatory Cash Transfers pilot for pastoralists in Kenya
Mercy Corps Ventures shares new results from scaling a blockchain-enabled anticipatory cash transfer model in Kenya, showing how faster, more frequent payouts can improve financial resilience for pastoralist households facing climate stress.
Pilot Launch | Tackling water scarcity through seed enhanced tomato seeds in Mexico
Mercy Corps Ventures, in partnership with Salicrop, is testing a non-GMO seed priming technology in Baja California to enhance tomato resilience under heat and saline stress, helping smallholder farmers improve yields and adapt to growing water scarcity.
Pilot Launch | Protecting Coffee Seedlings from Heat and Water Stress with Biodegradable Coatings in Costa Rica
In partnership with Lilliput Technologies Ltd., this pilot tests biodegradable coatings to protect coffee seedlings in Costa Rica from heat and water stress, improving early plant survival and helping farmers strengthen climate-resilient coffee production systems.