Boomitra Carbon Farming in East Africa through Soil Enrichment

Audit Analysis

A VCS soil-carbon project across 20 smallholder farms in Kenya (285 ha) using a novel remote-sensing AI model, validated by Earthood Services. Additionality is confirmed and a 12% buffer pool is in place, but the 0% leakage deduction lacks justification, reversal risk is unaddressed, and the VVB raised 30 corrective actions and 2 forward actions concerning the AI model's validity and error propagation. The absence of verified monitoring data and low extraction confidence limit confidence in the project's current performance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification recorded as 'not addressed' in the final validation report (2025-05-07), despite an earlier version (2025-04-08) indicating it was quantified — the later, authoritative version prevails
• ⚠Reversal events recorded as 'not addressed' for a soil-carbon project where carbon loss is a known risk, even though the AFOLU Non-Permanence Risk Tool was used ex-ante
• ⚠The VVB raised 30 Corrective Action Requests and 2 Forward Action Requests, including the need to demonstrate the validity of the remote-sensing AI model and to provide robust Monte Carlo error propagation accounting for spatial covariance
• ⚠No verified ERR figure is available in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm whether the project is delivering on its claimed 1,765,880 tCO2e lifetime estimate
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable

Credit Vintages

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