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Impact

Outlining the results reaped from the project

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Impact of the Northern Kenya Rangeland Carbon Project

The Project provides increased pasture and forage for herders' animals, as well as improved livelihoods. It has resulted in:

  • Higher pasture quality

  • Healthier livestock yielding more milk and meat

  • Better market prices for livestock

  • Increased family income from the sale of healthier cattle

  • Improved pasture even in dry season preventing livestock loss

  • Reduced grazing conflict, resulting in more peace

  • Generation of new streams of income

  • Better way of life for more than 175,000 local people in the community

Carbon sequestration, most crucially, generates a long-term revenue stream that is utilized to fund community-based development programs
that benefit local communities

Non-pastoralists benefit from the revenue generated by carbon credits, which will be used to fund education bursaries, establish school dorms or teacher housing, capitalize microfinance schemes, provide water infrastructure, and build and maintain health facilities, among other uses. They also benefit from the emergence of new long-term revenue streams.

The grassland restoration initiatives of the Northern Kenya Rangeland Carbon Project help the region build resilience to climate change while also conserving wildlife habitat.

Sightings of endangered species of elephant, reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Beisa oryx, gerenuk, lion, cheetah, and wild dog have increased across the Northern Kenya Rangeland Carbon Project area since the adoption of planned rotational grazing, in turn, this could enhance tourism in the region, helping to support and sustain other revenue streams for the community as well.