ESGpec selected for Fundação Cargill’s 2026 Semeia call for proposals
The Semeando Dados project will receive support in 2027 to promote productive inclusion and sustainability among family farmers in seven municipalities in Minas Gerais, Brazil
ESGpec is among the 16 initiatives selected for Fundação Cargill’s 2026 Semeia call for proposals. The Minas Gerais-based startup was selected in the Impact Businesses category with Semeando Dados: inclusão produtiva e sustentabilidade na pecuária leiteira (Sowing Data: productive inclusion and sustainability in dairy farming), a project serving family farmers in seven municipalities in Minas Gerais. The Foundation announced the results on November 3.
With financial support for implementation throughout 2027, the project brings ESGpec’s work to a challenge faced by family farmers: expanding access to information and tools that help them assess their practices and make decisions about sustainability in dairy farming.
Semeando Dados builds on a central area of the company’s work: using data to make sustainability more accessible and applicable to everyday farm management. In dairy production, understanding farm indicators can help identify areas that need attention, set priorities and track improvements over time.
Data to support decisions on the farm
ESGpec develops technologies to measure and monitor sustainability in dairy farming, combining international references with Brazilian production conditions. Its range of solutions includes assessments of animal welfare and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices, carbon footprint calculations and dashboards for analyzing results.
This information helps organize aspects of everyday farm operations, such as herd management, feeding, energy use and manure management. By bringing the data together, farmers and technical advisers can better understand farm performance and discuss opportunities for improvement based on the conditions of each production system.
The selection of Semeando Dados creates an opportunity to expand this work among family farmers in Minas Gerais, connecting access to information with the goals of productive inclusion and sustainability that guide the proposal.
Supporting sustainable food systems
Run by Fundação Cargill, with technical advisory support from Neurônio, the Semeia call for proposals allocates funding to initiatives that contribute to safe, sustainable and accessible food systems in Brazil. The 2026 edition selected nine socio-environmental projects and seven impact businesses across different regions of the country.
The selected organizations will receive support to implement initiatives in 2027 focused on local development, income generation, productive inclusion and environmental conservation. ESGpec is part of the group of selected businesses, with a proposal dedicated to family dairy farming.
About Fundação Cargill
Fundação Cargill works to promote safer, more sustainable and accessible food systems in Brazil. By supporting socio-environmental projects and impact businesses, it contributes to local development, income generation, productive inclusion and environmental conservation, taking into account each territory’s needs and potential.
About ESGpec
Founded in 2022, ESGpec is a startup based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, that develops solutions to measure, monitor and report sustainability in dairy farming. Its tools support farmers, technical advisers and companies in assessing animal welfare, ESG practices and carbon footprints, providing information to guide decisions and track farm progress.
In partnership with MilkPoint, the company also develops the Despertar Regenerativo project, which focuses on sharing knowledge and advancing sustainability in dairy farming.
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