About CaribVista Land Trust
A proposed non-profit land trust dedicated to converting idle Caribbean farmland into productive agriculture that feeds families for free. Powered by satellite intelligence from IAGRO SAT Caribbean.
Structure
Two Entities. One Mission.
CaribVista operates as a brother-sister model: two independent entities with a common founder, transacting at arm's length. This separates the social mission from the technology business while keeping them aligned.
CaribVista Land Trust
The operational entity that directly touches land, farmers, and food. Its sole purpose is food production and free distribution to families in need.
IAGRO SAT Caribbean
The technology company that provides satellite monitoring and ML intelligence. Serves CaribVista and other clients (banks, governments, cooperatives).
IAGRO SAT was originally developed for Brazilian agriculture — monitoring 18M+ CAR-registered properties across 850M hectares. The Caribbean arm launched first because the idle land crisis demanded urgent action. Brazil is a non-borrowing member of the CDB with Board voting rights, creating a natural South-South technology transfer bridge.
Arm's Length Relationship
CaribVista Land Trust contracts IAGRO SAT Caribbean for satellite monitoring services at market rates. The founder participates in both entities but recuses from pricing decisions. All transactions are documented, audited, and subject to board approval from independent directors.
Real-World Precedents
The brother-sister non-profit/for-profit model is well-established and has been validated at scale across multiple industries:
Mozilla Foundation / Corporation
Non-profit stewards the mission; for-profit builds Firefox and generates revenue.
Patagonia / Holdfast Collective
For-profit outdoor brand transferred ownership to non-profit environmental trust.
Hospital Systems (US)
Non-profit hospitals contract for-profit physician groups and service companies.
Grameen Bank Model
Non-profit microfinance institutions with for-profit technology and service arms.
Governance
Independent Board. Full Transparency.
Trust demands accountability. CaribVista's governance structure ensures no single individual controls the organisation, and every financial decision is subject to independent oversight.
7-Seat Board of Directors
Minimum 5 of 7 directors must be independent -- no employment, financial, or family relationship with the founder or IAGRO SAT Caribbean.
Conflict of Interest Safeguards
Structural protections to prevent self-dealing and ensure the non-profit mission is never compromised for for-profit benefit.
Audit and Reporting
Full financial transparency with multiple layers of independent oversight to maintain donor and partner confidence.
Technology
Powered by IAGRO SAT
Satellite-based agricultural intelligence built specifically for Caribbean conditions. Every decision at CaribVista is informed by real data from orbit.
Sentinel-2 Optical Imagery
12-band multispectral imagery from ESA Copernicus, processed into 20 spectral indices. 5-day revisit cycle provides continuous monitoring of crop health, land use change, and vegetation stress.
ESA WorldCover Classification
Global land cover map at 10m resolution used for the idle land census. Distinguishes cropland, grassland, shrubland, forest, urban, and water -- the foundation of CaribVista's parcel identification.
NDVI Crop Health Monitoring
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index tracks photosynthetic activity across every managed parcel. Automated stress alerts trigger intervention before crop loss occurs. Historical baselines from 108-month archive.
Hurricane Damage Assessment
Siamese neural network compares pre/post Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to produce pixel-level damage maps. Cloud-penetrating radar works during storm conditions when optical satellites are blinded.
Additional Intelligence Capabilities
Carbon MRV
IPCC-compliant carbon stock estimation. VCS VM0017 methodology. 4 carbon pools (AGB, BGB, SOC, CO2e).
Crop Classification
12 Caribbean crop types identified by multi-temporal CNN with SAR fusion and attention mechanism.
Yield Forecasting
LSTM with temporal attention over 12-month spectral time series. Uncertainty quantification for planning.
Anomaly Detection
Autoencoder + LSTM ensemble with seasonal baselines. Detects spectral, temporal, and extreme events.
Contact
Partner With Us
We are seeking development bank partners, government ministry collaborators, agricultural cooperatives, and impact investors to bring CaribVista from plan to reality.
Legal Notice
CaribVista Land Trust is a proposed entity. It has not yet been incorporated, registered, or funded. It will be incorporated under the Barbados Companies Act, Cap. 308, Section 314 (companies limited by guarantee without share capital) and registered as a charity under the Charities Act, Cap. 243. All financial projections, impact estimates, and operational plans described on this website are forward-looking statements based on research and modelling. Actual results will depend on funding, partnerships, government approvals, and market conditions.
IAGRO SAT Caribbean is a separately planned for-profit entity. The relationship between the two entities will be governed by arm's length contracts subject to independent board approval.