Accelerating sustainable food supply by connecting agronomy with ecology and economy
To maintain global food supply and build climate change resilience, the quality of our soils must be improved, water preserved and biodiversity protected. To address climate change, farming systems must evolve and net carbon emissions be reduced at scale.
Carbosuelo drives those changes by combining proven sustainable agronomy with economic value-chain incentives.
25%
A quarter of the world’s carbon emissions comes from food production
-3%
About 3% of the worlds fertile soil is lost every year, largely due to conventional farming.
~10%
Only a small fraction of global farming is performed sustainably today.
Conservation Agriculture as an impact enabler
Implementation of the three key farming principles of Conservation Agriculture is common to most sustainable farming approaches, and generate direct benefits for both Growers and the Environment.
Avantages of Conservation Agriculture
Mitigation and adaptation to climate change
Increased productivity and ecosystem services
Soil conservation and improvement of water quality
Adaptable to any crop system and region of the world
Improvements in the contents of Soil Organic Carbon / Organic matter
The 3 pillars of Conservation Agriculture
Direct seeding
Permanent soil cover
Crop rotations
Results of Conservation Agriculture
Permanent soil cover
Increase of soil organic matter
Increase of soil organic matter
Increase of CO2 sequestration (sink effect)
Elimination of tillage
No soil aggregates breakage
No release of the CO2 stored in the soil
Reduction of CO2 emissions
Increase of CO2 sequestration (sink effect)
Reduction of farming operations
Reduction of energy consumption
Reduction of CO2 emissions
Wide impact on the Climate and Environment
Climate
Sequestration of carbon into the soil
Reduced carbon emissions from farm operations
Soil
Reduced soil loss from erosion
Increased organic matter
Increased soil fertility & biodiversity
Water
Reduced run-off
Improved surface and ground water quality
Increased water holding capacity
Tangible benefits for Farm Operations
Demonstrated higher resilience to drought and climate change impact
Demonstrated increased financial bottom line impact
Demonstrated more farmable land per farm employee
Access to new revenue streams
Value throughout the agricultural sector
Growers
We provide growers with new revenue streams and best-in-class agronomic support to help the transition to Conservation Agriculture, building agronomical and economical climate resilience to their farm operation.
Food Chain
We provide supply shed-based, Scope 3 carbon insetting solutions for companies sourcing feedstock from the EU markets where we are present. The farm produce source can be different from our carbon asset origin.
NBS Investors
We deliver returns by generating high integrity carbon and biodiversity assets.
Bankable grower contracts, growing demand and price trends, leading third party certification and an emerging European compliance market are solid fundamentals of our commercial activity.
Commodity Trade
We help agricultural commodity traders to provide lower carbon footprint commodities, for Scope 3 insetting recognition. The source of the commodity can be different from our carbon asset origin.
Our offering
Conservation Agriculture expertise
Integrating recognised CA experts (advisors to FAO, World Bank, government) in our team, and collaborating with the country-specific CA associations for implementation we have the most relevant competence and best reach available to ensure grower success and maximise carbon impact
Scalable agronomical grower support model
With our experience-based strategic objective to drive deep impact at high success rates, we will operate a scalable grower support platform, based on exclusive online resources, learning tools, and expert forums, combined with local grower training events and field visits.
High integrity carbon value certification
Carbosuelo only works with globally renowned third party high integrity certification standards (e.g. Verra, Gold Standard), and with external, approved, verifiers. We don’t self-certify our CRUs, and use locally validated, recognised, science-based soil models complemented by soil samplings. This makes our carbon assets reliable and tradeable in the global marketplace.
Scope 3 carbon insetting & low carbon commodities
Carbosuelo is a member of SustainCert-VCI, which is a standard developer for Value Chain Scope 3 insetting accounting. Through VCI, carbon assets can easier be integrated into corporate SBTI net zero carbon accounting or used to validate low carbon ag commodities. Carbosuelo assets will be VCI compliant.
