SEQUESTER CARBON

PRODUCE FOOD

PROTECT FORESTS

IMPROVE LIVES

Welcome to CFI

Carbon Farms International targets degraded pasturelands in the tropics for conversion into land-use efficient carbon farms that drawdown atmospheric CO2 while producing more food than it did previously. We help impact investors achieve their climate change goals and smallholder farmers lift themselves out of poverty.

Managed Carbon Farms

CFI helps clients launch carbon farms starting from 100 hectares in size. CFI finds the land, develops a farm plan and guides the client through the process.

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Crowdfunded Carbon Farms

CFI will offer Crowdfunded carbon farms that allow small investors the opportunity to have an interest in a carbon farm that is managed by CFI.

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Smallholder Partnerships

CFI will partner investors with smallhold farmers to fund their transition to carbon farming. Farm-produced profits are shared with investors.

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Farm-Produced Products

CFI will be setting up door and flooring consumer products to ensure that the carbon sequestered on its farms remain captured for a long time.

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The Target: 350 PPM

A safe level of atmospheric CO2 to avert runaway global warming is below 350 parts per million (PPM) (Hansel et al, 2008). Currently we are around 410 PPM. Carbon sequestration is therefore vital for returning atmospheric CO2 back down to safe levels.

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How much carbon do we need to sequester?

Even if we stop burning fossil carbon completely, we will still be adding about 27% of our current emissions (14.9 gigatonnes of CO2eq) into the atmosphere each year.

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How much land would be needed to drawdown atmospheric CO2?

Experts estimate afforestation of land in the tropics could sequester 25 tonnes CO2/​hectare per year​. Using these metrics, to sequester 20 gigatonnes per year would require the planting of 800 million hectares of land, an area the size of Australia and New Guinea.

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Is carbon farming a pipe dream?

With a growing population and the world’s tropical forests being cleared each year for agricultural land to feed the world, it seems unlikely that we can find the land to sequester 20 gigatonnes CO2 per year by planting trees. Or is it?

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We have an opportunity to become way more land-use efficient

The land required to produce 1 kilogram of protein from beef is 14 times greater than the land required to produce 1 kilogram of equivalent protein from beans, corn, or potatoes. With nearly ​60​%​ ​or 3.3 billion hectaresa> of the world’s agricultural land devoted to raising beef, we could produce the same amount of protein from plant sources using only 260 million hectares of land, a 93% reduction in land area.

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The plight of our tropical forests

Since 1950, we have lost approximately 50% (7.5 billion hectares) of our tropical forests, and scientists estimate that number will increase to 80% by 2030 unless significant action is taken to stop deforestation.

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How much land can we find for reforestation?

If we were to substitute land-inefficient food sources, such as cattle, with efficient, plant-based alternatives — ideally using regenerative, no-till, and agroforestry practices — we would free up an area of land equal to the entire continent of Africa (over 3 billion hectares).

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Carbon farming solves many of the world’s problems

Both afforestation and reforestation of cattle pasture lands will not only relieve logging pressure on existing natural forests which themselves are important carbon sinks and harbor much of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, they would also provide the raw materials to supply a growing trend away from the use of CO2-intensive steel and concrete in building construction in favor of wood-based alternatives like laminated timber.

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Feeding a growing population

Drastically improving the efficiency of how much land is used to produce our protein and calories by switching to plant-based or more land-efficient animal sources, will also make it much easier to sustainably produce enough food to feed the world’s growing population.

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A solution for global warming and preventing disease pandemics

By reducing our reliance on animals for food, we also help address another global threat: the spread of zoonotic pathogens like coronoviruses such as SARS and COVID-19, Ebola, Salmonellosis and others.

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Our Mission

CFI’s mission is to accelerate the drawdown of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

Fast-growing hardwoods

CFI focuses on fast growing, valuable tropical hardwoods like Teak, Pochote and Mahogany.

Increased Food Production

To avoid putting pressure on the world's food supply, CFI includes perennial fruit trees like mango and coconut when designing a carbon farm.

Smart Farming Practices

CFI design and operate carbon farms using strategies that minimizes greenhouse gas emissions so that net CO2 sequestration is maximized.

Nothing is Wasted

Waste biomass from CFI designed carbon farms are either recycled into soil/compost or used as feedstock for biomass power plants.

Native forest is protected

Trees are planted on degraded pasturelands and any existing forest stands on farms are protected and in some cases expanded with native plants.

CFI Contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals