Technical Service Provider

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.

third party digital verification

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.

Traceable Transaction handling

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.

Utility

Utility is used to support the general functions of software infrastructure in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. A utility maintains the infrastructure for a public service and also provides a service using that infrastructure. In our software context, utilities can also refer to a common set of microservices and services provided by the community including but not limited to: weather data, soil data, GIS layers.