Biochar Life - Kenya

The project provides farmers with training on biochar production and usage, helping smallholder farmers turn their crop residues into biochar and either use it on their own farm or sell it through a cooperative. Each step includes specific activities which are verified by data gatherers through a mobile app and recorded on the blockchain. The carbon removal achieved by smallholder farmers is calculated and monitored according to the European Biochar Certification (“EBC”) - tropical farmer requirements.

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The project provides farmers with training on biochar production and usage, helping smallholder farmers turn their crop residues into biochar and either use it on their own farm or sell it through a cooperative. Each step includes specific activities which are verified by data gatherers through a mobile app and recorded on the blockchain. The carbon removal achieved by smallholder farmers is calculated and monitored according to the European Biochar Certification (“EBC”) - tropical farmer requirements.

Biochar Life cools the climate by helping to remove carbon from the atmosphere. They mobilise a large previously untapped human resource, the smallholder farmers of the developing world, to convert currently burned crop waste, a huge, previously ignored source of greenhouse gases, into carbon sequestering biochar. They train smallholder farmers to create biochar, rather than burn, their crop waste, certify the amount of carbon removed, provide access to global carbon offset markets for the verified carbon sequestration, and ensure immediate payment, thereby encouraging other farmers to also create biochar, reducing the amount of crop waste being burnt.