'It all hinges on the herders': world's largest soil carbon removal project enlists Kenyan pastoralists

A scheme that sets down strict grazing plans to benefit the environment and generate revenue for local people was highlighted at Cop27 as a future modelWhen Andrew Dokhole, a community leader in Isiolo, northern Kenya, took on the task of explaining a proposed soil carbon removal project a decade ago, he had to convince largely illiterate people about the benefits of a "foreign" concept."Our people didn't know what carbon was," says Dokhole. "There is no word for carbon in our local language, not even in Swahili, the national language. Yet the success of the project depended on the pastoralists understanding how the concept works and how it would affect their daily activities." Continue reading...