Description
The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) is seeking proposals from eligible businesses or organizations for pilot projects that facilitate expanding the marketplace for climate smart agricultural products. The goal of this solicitation is to enable businesses and organizations to pilot innovative solutions for expanding the climate smart commodity and product market at various stages along the supply chain.
Some key aspects of the project include:
• Increasing the purchasing volume of climate smart commodities or products
• Providing documentable premiums for climate smart agricultural commodities or products
• Increasing capacity for cleaning, processing, storage, distribution, or manufacturing of climate smart commodities or products
• Creating new verifiable buyer contracts or agreements for climate smart commodities or products
• Demonstrating new marketing initiatives or increases in effective marketing and consumer education strategies for products with climate smart messaging