ABOUT CASCADE
Cascade assembles the team a project needs, and runs it
Cascade is a vehicle for collaboration. Each engagement is scoped, then staffed: technical specialists, facilitators, and the agronomists and land managers who already know the ground. Cascade holds the method, the client relationship and the project management, so the team can stay small, specific and accountable.
HOW A TEAM COMES TOGETHER
Six capabilities that rarely sit in one place, assembled into one team
Agronomy
GIS and hydrology
Origin strategy
Facilitation
Carbon and compliance
Capital and compliance routes
One project team, one point of accountability
How the work is put together
01Scope of work
- What has to be decided, by whom, and on what evidence
- Scope and turnaround confirmed within two working days
02Team assembly
- Drawn from long-standing collaborators: origin strategy, GIS and hydrology, agronomy, facilitation, carbon and compliance
- No standing overhead in the fee
03Accountability
- Cascade runs the schedule, the data, the method notes and the client relationship
- The client deals with one party, not a consortium
04Local collaboration
- Field data, farm economics and practice assessment come from people already working in the system
- Contracted in and named in the report
Project Collaborations
CASCADE PRINCIPAL
Dennis Posthumus
Principal, project lead and coordination
- Technical design and origin strategy across every engagement
- The lead role that runs it: scope, team, schedule, method notes and the client relationship from first call to delivery
NICARAGUA · BANPRO AND CABEI
Ramiro Espinoza
Agronomist, León, Jinotega and Matagalpa
- Carried the farm visits and practice assessment behind the loan-book work
- What producers are actually doing, and what a transition would cost them
ETHIOPIA · BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE
Mulugeta Mokria
Origin agronomy, Ethiopia
- Farm-level observation and producer contact in the Ethiopian origin
- Feeding the gap dashboards and the transition scenarios built on them
CHIAPAS, MEXICO · BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE
Javier Corso
Field coordination, Chiapas
- Producer relationships and field coordination in Chiapas
- One of the four origins put on a single comparable basis
MOLDEA · SITE AND MASTERPLAN WORK
Pamela Cordeiro
Architect, Moldea
- Architecture and built-form design where a masterplan has to become buildable
- Siting, structures, and the phasing that construction can follow
REGENERATES · LATIN AMERICA
Chris Kaput
Project coordination, Latin America
- Origin strategy and coordination across the Latin American engagements
- Producer groups, exporters and origin teams held together through delivery
What a Cascade team brings
- Goal setting
- Program design
- Transition roadmapping
- Coalition development
- Engagement
- Workshopping and facilitation
- Context assessment with the people who hold the decisions
- GIS and hydrology
- Cropping concept design
- Climate risk
- Carbon impact
- Financial modeling
- Regulatory compliance
- MRV development
- Outcome verification
- Claims that survive scrutiny
- Local agronomists and land managers contracted into the team
- Carrying farm visits and practice assessment
- Held by Cascade
- Schedule, data, method notes
- One point of contact for the client
Tell us the decision, and we will put together the team it needs
We will confirm scope and turnaround within two working days.