From Farms to Finance: The Promise and Peril of India’s Agricultural Carbon Credits (Part 1)
Pradeep Motwani -CEO at Terrablu Climate Technologies Pvt Ltd
New Delhi [India], February 06: At first glance, agricultural carbon credits appear to offer a compelling win-win. Farmers—long viewed primarily as victims of climate change—are recast as climate solution providers. By shifting practices such as reducing tillage, planting cover crops, improving water management, adopting methods to enhance long term carbon sequestration, or agroforestry, farms can increase carbon stored in soils and biomass. This carbon is then measured, verified, and converted into credits that companies purchase to offset their emissions. In theory, the model turns farms into carbon sinks and provides farmers with an additional income stream.
In practice, the reality is far more complex. Across much of the Gl...