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Smallholder farmers across Africa are facing growing climate volatility, rising risk, and changing development finance models. What does effective, scalable climate resilience look like now?

Join Emmet Murphy, a food security and climate leader with over 25 years of experience across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, for a practical conversation on adaptation at the last mile. Drawing on his leadership of large agricultural development and tech-enabled programs, Emmet shares lessons from deploying digital tools, AI-supported advisory systems, and drone technologies in smallholder farming contexts.

This session explores how climate change is reshaping agricultural risk, the role of inclusive innovation and local knowledge, and where digital solutions are strengthening resilience today through real-world insights from Rwanda, Nigeria, Haiti, and beyond. 

Whether you’re focused on agriculture, climate adaptation, technology, or rural livelihoods, this session will unpack actionable pathways for building climate-smart, digitally inclusive agricultural systems at scale.

What does it really take to build companies - and ecosystems that endure beyond hype cycles and funding booms?

In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, Anshuman Bapna (Founder, Terra.do) and Sandeep Singhal (Senior Advisor & Investment Committee Member, Avaana Capital) explore what it means to bet on what truly matters, especially in the defining decade for climate action.

​Bringing together the perspectives of a serial entrepreneur building the talent infrastructure for the climate economy and a veteran venture capitalist deploying capital into India’s sustainability transition, this dialogue will unpack the intersection of entrepreneurship, capital, and long-term impact. 

​From lessons learned across multiple market cycles to the realities of scaling climate-first businesses in emerging markets, they’ll reflect on what founders and funders must do differently now and why the next wave of entrepreneurship may be more mission-driven, more capital-efficient, and more system-aware than the last.

​Expect an honest discussion on navigating risk, building conviction in uncertain markets, aligning profit with purpose, and creating institutions that outlast individual leaders. 

​For anyone thinking about starting, backing, or working in climate, this conversation offers both strategic insight and personal perspective on how to build for the long haul.