Smallholder farmers carry the financial burden of a climate crisis they didn't create. The terms were never theirs to set.
WHY WE EXIST
One Market. Four
Structural Problems.
We saw the same gap from four sides — and built C-GEM to close it for all of them.
WHY WE EXIST
Protecting The Planet
Empowering
Communities
Our mission is to tip the scale in favour of grassroots farming families — shielding them from predatory contracts and enabling direct access to planetary climate finance.
THE ACCOUNTABILITY STANDARD
Someone in this market has to answer the farmer.
Most intermediaries profit when the deal closes — a quiet bias toward the transaction, not the community. C-GEM is built the other way. We represent growers, and only growers.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Transparency. Integrity. People.
Non-negotiable, in that order.
Transparency
for all
Every contract, baseline, and benefit-sharing structure should be visible and understandable — to every stakeholder, not just the powerful ones.
Integrity
for all
Every contract, baseline, and benefit-sharing structure should be visible and understandable — to every stakeholder, not just the powerful ones.
People
for all
Every contract, baseline, and benefit-sharing structure should be visible and understandable — to every stakeholder, not just the powerful ones.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Built By People Who Have Spent Years In This Room.
Srajesh Gupta
Co-Founder & Anchor
Srajesh brings deep experience in agricultural extension, public policy, and community-level programme design. Before C-GEM, he worked with the National Coalition for Natural Farming as a founding Associate — building his understanding of how farming communities navigate institutional systems and where those systems fail them.
"Accelerated adoption of Natural Farming is a function of facilitative extension services and financial resilience."
MSc Agricultural Extension · Raipur
Cert. International Development · U Chicago
PGD Public Policy · ISPP New Delhi
Siddhartha Dabhi
Co-Lead — Research & Project Management
Srajesh brings deep experience in agricultural extension, public policy, and community-level programme design. Before C-GEM, he worked with the National Coalition for Natural Farming as a founding Associate — building his understanding of how farming communities navigate institutional systems and where those systems fail them.
"Accelerated adoption of Natural Farming is a function of facilitative extension services and financial resilience."
MSc Agricultural Extension · Raipur
MSc Agricultural Extension · Raipur
MSc Agricultural Extension · Raipur
Anish Salim
Project Coordinator
On the ground before anyone else, making sure what was promised actually happens.
Mihir Prajapati
Sustainability Manager
The rigour behind every project C-GEM touches.
Aditi
Digital Communications Coordinator
Turns field work into public language.
GUIDANCE
The People Who Hold Us To Account.
C-GEM's advisory council brings together decades of institutional knowledge in rural development, carbon markets, agroecology, and governance.
Minhaj Ameen
Director, Agroecology Fund Founder, earth&us
Apoorva Oza
Global Programme Lead in Agriculture and Climate Change at Aga Khan Foundation | Ex-CEO AKRSP (India) (2001-22)
Dr Sukhpal Singh
Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
Naveen Patidar
Director, Agroecology Fund Founder, earth&us
Shirish Joshi
Corporate Consultant in Organisation Design, Organisation Development and Strategic HR | Advisor, Bharat Agroecology Fund
What People Say
Voices From The Ecosystem
Annette Black
Chief Chairman of Netflix
“Golio is one of the BEST web designers I've ever worked with professionally. I am a repeat customer who continues to work with Zakir because of his talent/skills, great customer service, work ethic, and attention to detail. ”
Annette Black
Chief Chairman of Netflix
“Golio is one of the BEST web designers I've ever worked with professionally. I am a repeat customer who continues to work with Zakir because of his talent/skills, great customer service, work ethic, and attention to detail. ”
Annette Black
Chief Chairman of Netflix
“Golio is one of the BEST web designers I've ever worked with professionally. I am a repeat customer who continues to work with Zakir because of his talent/skills, great customer service, work ethic, and attention to detail. ”