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The Savimbo Project
Fair-trade carbon offsets. The Savimbo Project was designed by, and for, smallfarmers in tropical forests. Existing community organizations who want to move their economic models from deforestation, to conservation and reforestation.The majority of deforestation — over 80% in tropical forests — occurs on farms less than 5 hectares. Three-hundred-year-old trees are sold for pennies on the dollar to international hardwood traders. But this is not because local populations don't care about their land. It's because they have no other source of income.There are 1 billion subsistence farmers who are excluded from global markets, and unable to participate in carbon-sequestration projects directly because of institutional middleman, digital and scientific illiteracy, and lack of access to transactions.The Savimbo Project is directly reversing this trend.We pay smallfarmers directly for conserving the land that they own. We make monthly, floor-price micropayments transacted through crypto, mobile money, and existing banking systems to landowners who choose to conserve or replant.We validate farmer's efforts through trustless digital methods. We use high-resolution satellite imaging, GPS, machine learning on smartphone images, on-the-ground surveys, and annual drone capture.We certify carbon offsets through existing organizations. Carbon offsets can take 5-10 years to validate and track in existing registries like Verra, SustainCERT, and Gold Standard. Our organization takes the time to do it right. We plan and track projects using established scientific methods. When credits finally are ready for sale, we give smallfarmers 20% of the final profits for their collaborative investment.We are a B-corporation, with for-profit and nonprofit arms. We accept donations through our 501(c)3 registered US nonprofit Empulsive Ink (ein 88-1869344). Non-profit funds are used to expand smallfarmers capacity to participate in projects. This includes digital and reading literacy programs, access to bank accounts, conservation education, silviculture training, women's aid, indigenous and local land rights. Our for-profit arm pays smallfarmers a fair-trade monthly floor price for replanting and conserving on their land, and sells carbon offsets on the traditional market while enabling early investment by offset brokers through Web3 tokens.
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