Northern Kenya Rangelands
Kenya
Regenerative Agriculture
Restores grassland across nearly two million hectares of community-managed rangeland in northern Kenya, making it the world’s largest soil carbon project.
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Project type:
Regenerative Agriculture
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Project status:
Monitoring
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Methodology:
VM0032
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Project area (ha):
1,993,075
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Project zone (ha):
2,150,000
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Validator:
Aster Global Environmental Solutions Inc.
Standards
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
The world’s largest soil carbon project covers almost two million hectares of community-managed rangeland in northern Kenya. Its community conservancies employ planned rotational grazing that materially reduces the degradation and overgrazing typical in the region. This results in improved conditions for soil and grass to regenerate. Through the process, soil carbon is gradually rebuilt, delivering the highly unusual combination of large-scale carbon removal credits which are also CCB Triple Gold certified.
Project developer
Northern Rangelands Trust
The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is a membership organisation owned and led by the 43 community conservancies it serves in Kenya (northern and coastal regions) and Uganda.
Location
The project area extends northward from the northern slopes of Mt. Kenya toward the Ethiopia border.
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Our impact
In addition to improving the soil's ability to sequester carbon, the project protects habitat for endangered species while supporting communities by introducing an additional revenue stream that funds health, educational and community development initiatives.
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Number of hectares under restoration
Nearly 2 million hectares
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Tonnes of CO2 sequestered from the atmosphere
50 million tonnes
The project expects to remove 50 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere over a 30-year period. Between 2013 and 2016, through rotational grazing practices led by pastoralists, the project sequestered more than 3.2 million tonnes of carbon in the region’s soils – this makes it one of the largest landscape-scale carbon removal projects in the world.
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Endangered species and wildlife conservation
The project area is an important habitat for endangered species such as the Black Rhino, Grevy’s Zebra, the Reticulated Giraffe and the Beisa Oryx
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Carbon revenue and beyond-carbon benefits
Income from carbon credits helps diversify community income and fund education bursaries, develop water infrastructure and build health facilities. Future project revenues will also support efforts to mitigate the effects of extreme drought.
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