On-the-ground climate work across Africa.

A transformative climate-finance project designed to monetise the ecological restoration efforts of 6,000 smallholder farmers in Busia. Unlike traditional projects that only look forward, EcoGreen uses Vintage Credit methodologies to reward farmers for the additionality they have already delivered over the past decade.

By transforming 3,000 hectares of rocky, riparian, and marginal land into a managed carbon sink, the project creates a sustainable industrial base for bamboo-based furniture, biochar, and eco-cutlery — improving education, climate, and livelihoods for over 3,000 households across 6,000 acres of reforested land.

Wamunyu is a microcosm of the agricultural challenges facing semi-arid regions. Prolonged use of synthetic fertilizers has hardened the soil; cooperative oil-extraction operations generate sunflower husks as a disposal burden; and maize cobs and pigeon pea stalks accumulate as problematic waste streams.

The convergence of these challenges is the opportunity: agricultural liabilities transformed into soil-building assets through biochar production — with carbon finance as the economic catalyst. We work directly with the community to convert their organic waste into more than 10,000 tonnes of biochar a year.