Soils for the Future Tanzania

Soils for the Future Tanzania Ltd (SftFTZ)is a private company whose goal is to establish a business around soil carbon through improved rangeland health that benefits people and nature. SftFTZ is committed to protecting the rights of the communities where carbon projects are implemented.

SftFTZ works in partnership with CarbonSolve and Soils for the Future.

Our Story

SftFTZ’s goal is to establish public-private partnerships (PPP) soil carbon-based financing to support improved rangeland health to the benefit of people and nature. We offer management solutions and analyses of data to help people change the way they use the land, whether through agricultural practices, grazing management, fire management, or forestry and other activities to improve soils and achieve more carbon-rich soils. Carbon projects manage natural landscapes to generate carbon credits, which are bought by companies that voluntarily seek to reduce their carbon footprint.

In 2023, SftFTZ is advancing two carbon project concepts via local community and government partnerships. The first concept is a PPP in Northern Tanzania to establish a livestock management-based rangeland improvement carbon project. The second concept PPP is with Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) to establish a fire management-based soil carbon project with the Serengeti National Park (SENAPA).

Meet The Team

Iddi Mfunda, Ph.D.

Country Coordinator

Iddi specializes in economics, natural resources, and the environment. He has 31 years of professional experience in formulating natural resources management policies and strategies; developing programs and projects; participatory management; institutional collaboration; monitoring and evaluation; and preparing plans, budgets, and reports.

In 2019, he joined the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Africa Program and during this time demonstrated strong organizational and teamwork-building skills, working with key partners at national and international institutions.

Iddi assists Soils for the Future Tanzania Ltd in providing leadership to key functions, defining the Company’s strategic direction, overseeing implementation, monitoring funds management, evaluation, identifying opportunities to enhance business results, and ensuring that all technical and financial reporting requirements and related deadlines are respected at all times.

Geofrey Soka, Ph.D.

Monitoring and Evaluation Director

Dr. Geofrey Soka has been involved in conservation and ecological research throughout his academic and working career. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Management from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania in 2002, and a Master of Science in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2005. He worked as an Associate Expert at Bioversity International (formerly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute) from 2005 to 2008. Dr. Soka received his Ph.D. in Landscape Ecology from Syracuse University, USA in 2014. He has published 47 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Wildlife Management at Sokoine University of Agriculture. His main research interests lie in the area of landscape ecology, conservation biology, and related socio-economic aspects.

Richard Ndaskoi, M.Sc.

Project Director

Richard holds a BA (Hons) in Land Use Planning & Environmental Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), and an MSc in Rural Development from University College Dublin (UCD) Ireland. Ndaskoi has over 30 years of work experience in community development with a bias on the interface of community development and natural resources management.

Ndaskoi worked as a community development professional with many different International NGOs and bilateral donor Agencies: he has worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Singita Grumeti Fund (SGF) as a Community Outreach Program Manager, Oxfam GB, DANIDA, Ereto, a DANIDA funded project, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Belgium Consortium of NGOs (NCOS) among others.