Pastoralists play a vital role in managing and restoring their lands. Our approach reinforces traditional pastoral practices, ensuring that grazing remains a sustainable, resilient and hopefully primary livelihood. By collaborating with Soils for the Future Africa, and Soils for the Future Tanzania, pastoral communities increase soil carbon, which is converted into carbon credits, providing long-term financial support for cultural and ecological sustainability. Unlike short-term aid, carbon financing provides the potential for long-term sustainable land restoration solutions to improve the livelihoods of pastoralists and their cultural identity. It is only through the business of carbon financing that this is possible, which is in stark contrast to recent declines in funding international aid.​

Protecting Ancestral Rangelands

Our soil carbon projects safeguard traditional pastoral practices. The Maasai have long managed communal lands through seasonal grazing; moving between wet and dry season ranges. Using a rotational grazing approach enhances, not restricts, this system. This method promotes livestock to be more mobile within these grazing areas, and purposefully supports historic livestock movement among grazing areas. There is ample scientific evidence that this rapid rotational grazing system works in East Africa to increase soil carbon and resilience to climate change.

Further reading: Increased pastoralist livestock mobility is associated with large-rangeland restoration and soil carbon sequestration.