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CarbonFarm Technology

Country:

Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Ghana, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy

Crops/Commodity Focus:

Rice

Category:

Remote Sensing and Imagery, Traceability, AI, Capacity Building, MRV, Climate Services, Carbon Credits

About

CarbonFarm is a climate-tech company enabling smallholder rice farmers and local organizations (cooperatives, NGOs, agribusinesses) to access carbon markets by implementing high-integrity, sustainable rice cultivation practices like Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD). By using satellite-based AI to simplify MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) processes, CarbonFarm makes it easier, cheaper, and more transparent to verify carbon reductions and sell credits on voluntary markets. Their goal is to unlock finance through carbon markets to incentivize methane and water-use reduction in rice farming at scale across Asia and beyond.

Capabilities & Features

AI & Satellite-based MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification),: Uses remote sensing and machine learning to detect AWD adoption and calculate GHG (greenhouse gas/es) and water-use reductions from space.

Carbon Market Enablement: Handles full lifecycle from project registration, carbon credit development, MRV, and linking to carbon buyers.

Simplified Data Collection: Reduces or eliminates the need for on-ground MRV, cutting costs and improving scalability.

Trusted Verification: Improves transparency and credibility of rice-based carbon credits, boosting investor confidence.

Partner Support: Designed to empower cooperatives, NGOs, and agribusinesses, not just individual farmers to launch their own carbon projects.

Global Reach: Supports rice-growing partners in Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe.

Alignment with Article 6.2: Involved in major government-backed carbon transfer projects, like UNDP's Ghana's Switzerland pilot under the Paris Agreement.

Progress to Date

Partnered with UNDP for the first Article 6.2 rice-based carbon credit project between Ghana and Switzerland.

Built a pipeline of projects across Asia (Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh), with expansion in Africa and Southern Europe.

Developed a first-of-its-kind remote MRV platform dedicated to rice, backed by exclusive satellite partnerships.

Positioned as a pioneer in rice-specific MRV technology, with network effects and economies of scale that make replication difficult.

Actively connecting thousands of smallholders and regional implementers to carbon markets with a transparent and scalable financing mechanism.