Kenya: Farmers Can Now Measure and Benefit From Fruit Tree Carbon Trade

Nairobi — Farmers can now know and benefit from their contribution to climate change thanks to a formula that can be used to calculate the amount of carbon stored in fruit trees.

In a project dubbed Fruit Trees for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in East Africa, the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), in collaboration with ICRAF developed a mathematical formula that can enable farmers to calculate and determine the amount of carbon that is stored by their…