Boomitra allows the World Food Programme (WFP) to monitor soil carbon and works with farmers to adopt regenerative land management practices that increase soil health and agricultural yields, while offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.
Soil health and human wellbeing are intrinsically connected. Soils not only form the foundation of our global food system and water supply, but also act as the largest land based carbon sink, with the potential to store over nine gigatons of carbon dioxide annually. Despite this, over a third of global soils are significantly degraded, which not only hampers global food production, water distribution, and carbon storage, but also significantly impacts farmer livelihoods around the world.
Boomitra’s technologies allow the team to remotely monitor soil carbon; nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) levels; and moisture levels across the globe without the need for physical soil sampling. Boomitra couples these insights with carbon credit payment schemes, empowering farmers around the world with the knowledge and financial tools to adopt regenerative land management practices. These practices, in turn, increase soil health and agricultural yields, while also offsetting a significant portion of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. To date, Boomitra has established projects on over 5 million acres of land globally with 100+ partners.
The goal of the collaboration between Boomitra and WFP is to increase the resilience of 10,000 Farm-to-Market Alliance (FtMA) farmers by providing them with the knowledge and tools to improve their soil health and yields, and the means to access carbon revenue, to increase their incomes by a target of 20 percent. Activities would include: 1) identifying and enrolling farmers into the program; 2) map 30,000 hectares of land in Kenya; 3) submit carbon credits to the international verification body (VERRA); and 4) transferring carbon credit finance to the farmers as a result of their carbon sequestration activities.
