Pre-competitive refers to a collective approach to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders from across the agricultural industry to create new technologies and solutions that benefit this shared industry and the larger food system. Diverse efforts can be streamlined into solving systematic problems using multiple industry perspectives. Using such an approach will allow for more rapid advancements in our shared understanding of food systems, agroecosystems, climate science, and relationships between soil health, and human health.

Orign and ownership of observed greenhouse gas benefits.

Public Land Library is a publicly curated knowledge commons comprising a curated set of environmental, geological, and human history records of land that is documented and accessible., Like a just as documents and archives can be contributed to like a public library, its documents and archives can be contributed to, and they are searchable like a registry of deeds, while also protecting sensitive locations or data that might threaten food sovereignty.

Data Resolution is the least detectable difference in a measurement, record, or observation

Technical service providers (TSPs) offer planning, design, and implementation services to agricultural producers such as farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners on behalf of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). This assistance helps improve the producer’s operation.

The process of having an independant third party verify user’s information and data to ensure accuracy or transparency. In this case, Technical Service Providers will act as a third party to verify environmental impacts of newly implemented, climate-smart practices on farms.

Tracking of climate-smart products and their raw materials/components throughout the supply chain using digital market profile and storytelling kits which will also provide both meaning and measurement of impact for supporting market development.