World Bank Methodology for Soil Carbon Sequestration Approved

A new methodology to encourage smallholder farmers in Kenya – and potentially worldwide -- to adopt improved farming techniques, boost productivity, increase their resilience to climate change, and earn carbon credits, has been given international approval.

The Verified Carbon Standard approved this first methodology on soil carbon, a new approach for sustainable agricultural land management (SALM) practices.  The methodology was developed by the World Bank for the Smallholder Agriculture Carbon Finance Project run by the non-governmental organization Vi Agroforestry in western Kenya.  The pilot, involving more than 60,000 smallholders who are farming 45,000 hectares of land, is run together with smallholder farmers and supported by the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund...More 

Press Release

• New Soil Carbon Methodology Approved

Web Stories

• First African Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement for Soil Carbon Signed in the Hague: Kenyan Farming Project could be model for the Region 
• Triple Win of Climate-Smart Agriculture put into Practice  

Interview with E. Baroudy, Head of BioCarbon Fund

• Kenya Agriculture project benefits smallholder farmers 

Project Information

• Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project

SALM in the media

• World Bank Methodology for Soil Carbon Sequestration Approved (IISD)
• AGRICULTURE: Farm-based carbon market to get trial run in Kenya (Copyright 2012, Environment and Energy Publishing LLC. Reprinted with permission)