Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship

Emerging markets training program (empt) and value chain cade's emtp aims to establish new markets and facilitate economic growth in sustainable agriculture in 12 counties of central ny. The program will leverage cade's market research, successes, and learnings from the value chain acceleration program, farm to school program, and ffbi to build the capacity of local institutions to purchase central ny farm products, as well as farmers and local distributors to increase and retain online sales and meet institutional purchasing requirements. These activities will reduce marketing costs, increase farm sales and profitability, improve farmer readiness for emerging markets and, as a result, foster greater collaboration between farmers and local food processors and distributors. Program funding sources: usda lfpp, nyu stern.

Farmland access in partnership with the american farmland trust and the scholarship land trust, cade is working to conserve farmland and transition it to the next generation of farmland owners and operators in schoharie and Delaware counties. Program funding sources: aft, slt, usda bfrdp

Farm and food business incubator and accelerator(ffbi/ffba) cade's ffbi, implemented in partnership with suny cobleskill, contributes to a thriving farm and food business sector in new york state, with priority for businesses in the mohawk valley. The program provides technical assistance and educational servics to agribusiness entrepreneurs, with priority for beginning farmers, on business Development, access to capital, legal structuring, labor, and other business needs. Cade services are delivered through workshops, one-to-one consultations, and increasingly through online educational instruction through cade's expanding instructional video library. Ffba is a newly established initiative offered by cade and suny cobleskill- designed to deliver product incubation services to agribusiness entrepreneurs ready to grow, expand, or transition into value-added production. Our goal is to accelerate their success, enhancing their capacity to impact the region's Agricultural economy and new york's food system. Program funding sources: suny cobleskill, usda bfrdp, usda ewdp, the scriven foundation.

Vision 2050 in collaboration with the dyson school of cornell university, the cornell small farms program, hartwick college, suny cobleskill, and faculty from columbia university, cade brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to develop a long-term, visionary plan for new york states' Agricultural future--setting nys on course to become the northeast's leading foodshed by 2050 and a model for a regenerative, sustainable, equitable food sytem. The vision was formed by farm and food business sector leaders from across the supply chain, food system experts, Agricultural specialists, climate change specialists, among others. The purpose of the vision is to inform leaders and policy makers on how they can accelerate sustainable Agricultural economic Development, increase food security, mitigate climate change, and create green jobs throughout the farm and food sector in new york state by 2050. Program funding sources: esd, arc, the scriven foundation, cfoc. Farm to institution cade is working to enhance the capacity of farm and food businesses to access institutional markets--including public schools, pantries, health and senior centers, universities/colleges, food pantries, etc.--and simultaneously, to build the capacity of institutions to purchase more local/new york produced food. As part of this work, cade helped design and launch ripecommunity, an online matchmaking platform designed to connect food suppliers with institutional food buyers. Program funding sources: usda lfpp, chaobani impact fund, nysdam, hcoc, nyu stern, wild kale.