Episode 77 / The Butterfly Story of New Tech & Small Farms Hosting Daniela Kandel

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Daniela Kandel. Daniela is the founder and CEO of Evergreen Innovation Platform (EIP), which brings climate-smart technologies to address the needs of smallholder farmers in emerging markets and increase their productivity and resilience. Before this, Daniela was the Senior Director at Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), leading the organization’s ecosystem-to-ecosystem work, and developing bridges between innovation ecosystems around the globe by leveraging Israel’s unique assets and capabilities. Daniela and her team developed the Global Finder Network and Impact Bridges to increase the positive impact of Israeli technologies and knowledge on social and environmental challenges globally. In her early career, Daniela was a Milken Institute Fellow stationed at the Department of the Accountant General in Israel’s Ministry of Finance. Focusing on financial innovation, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing, she was involved in developing Israel’s first social impact bond for the prevention of Type 2 Diabetes. She holds an M.A. in financial economics and a B.A. in economics and statistics, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this episode, you will hear about how we can bring innovations to smallholder farmers, the challenges, the risks, risk mitigations, and more. Some notes... More about 1treellion & Daniela Kandel, EIP. To support planting all over the world, please check out this link. The great music is credited to Pixabay.