Carbon Payments for Farmers

There has been justifiable skepticism around carbon payment schemes to farmers in the past. Now, some platforms have solved for MRV. All that remains for the carbon economy to scale… is regulation.

It goes by many names, but the general idea behind ‘carbon payments’ for farmers is to generate an asset of value for deploying and reporting beneficial land management practices. In exchange for converting land to no-till, grazing, and cover cropping, farmers receive certificates that can be sold to buyers on the platform wishing to pay for ecological …