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Nara Climate Community Biochar Project
The Nara Climate Community Biochar Project converts an invasive shrub into a long-term carbon sink while giving refugee and pastoralist communities a new source of income.



The Nara Climate Community Biochar Project is set in the arid drylands of Kakuma and Kerio in Turkana County, northern Kenya. This project converts an invasive shrub into a long-term carbon sink while giving refugee and pastoralist communities a new source of income.
The project uses an invasive plant, Prosopis Juliflora as its feedstock. Prosopis Juliflora has spread across large areas of Turkana, degrading grazing land and native vegetation. The project's Community Based Organisations convert it into biochar using Kontiki flame cap kilns, and apply it to saline, degraded soils to improve pH, water retention and nutrient storage. The land is restored with fast-growing agroforestry systems that produce high yields of food crops, from spinach to tomatoes and fruit trees. This transformation provides communities with the tools to be self-reliant in some of the harshest environmental conditions.
The Nara project delivers many benefits through supporting the local community, improving soil health for agricultural purposes which in turn improves food security, and through biochar production, diverts biomass that would otherwise be turned into charcoal.


Certified under the Global Artisan C-Sink Standard, managed by Carbon Standards International.
This biochar project will contribute towards tackling Kenya's environmental challenges regarding invasive plants while supporting the sustainable development of the agricultural industry focusing on the use of biochar within saline agricultural practices.
- Project Design Document Version 3, prepared by Criou Energy Ltd
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