Abstract

ArcGIS in GHG Removals Computation for Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project
Track: Agriculture
Authors: Peter Maina

The Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project is pilot project supported by the BioCarbon Fund. It promotes and implements a package of Sustainable Agricultural Land Management practices within smallholder farming systems and generates Green House Gas (GHG) removals through soil and tree carbon sequestration. Carbon credits are generated and claimed based on a new carbon accounting methodology that requires the baseline scenario and the demonstration of additionality be determined only for those parcels of land (approx. 60,000) implementing the project activities. This made it necessary to develop a monitoring system that delineates each and every parcel implementing the project activities for GHG removals computation. Due to the large number of tracks and the computation requirements, ArGIS 10 offered a flexible and robust platform. The system has performed well and would be helpful to similar projects working with smallholder farmers and required to perform similar analysis.