Harvest SARA is an initiative on Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture.
We are a public-good, multi-stakeholder, innovative pre-competitive forum for researchers and private industry to come together to advance Earth observation-based tools, integrative methods, and knowledge about adoption and impacts of sustainable and regenerative agriculture techniques.
Climate is changing. Food insecurity is growing. Soil is degraded.
What do satellites have to do with sustainability?
Satellites can observe both practices and impacts repeatably, objectively, over time, & at scale.
As the agrifood system unites to address these challenges, there are knowledge gaps about practice suitability and their outcomes, hindering on-farm and policy action alike.
The time is short to empower agriculture to be a net carbon sink, and to help farmers build resilience to extreme weather events. We need a robust evidence base to build policy and empower decisions, and satellites can help us do that.
Harvest SARA convenes top scientists in the fields of remote sensing, modeling, soil science, and economics, from both the public and private sector, to move our collective understanding of sustainable and regenerative agriculture, and our ability to measure its adoption and impacts, forward.
Harvest SARA is a 501(c)3 funded through philanthropic contributions to the University of Maryland College Park Foundation.
All outcomes serve the public good.