Sofala Community Carbon Project
Project/Juridiction proponent
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
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Africa Carbon Livelihoods Trust | #http://www.tropicalforestgroup.org/africa-carbon-livelihoods-trust/# | Mozambique | NGO/private non for profit |
Envirotrade Carbon Limited | #http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/home.php# | Mozambique | private for-profit |
Project/Juridiction Partners
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
---|---|---|---|
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management (ECCM) | ND | Mozambique | Private for profit |
The Park Administration of the Gorongosa National Park | ND | Mozambique | Public |
University of Edinburgh | ND | Mozambique | Research/academic institute |
Project characteristics
- ID-RECCO ID405
- Project status 2022Ended
- Project nameSofala Community Carbon Project
- Secondary nameN'hambita Community Carbon Project (former name)
- CountryMozambique
- Last IDRECCO update year2020
- Size (in hectare)11744
- Start yearND
- End year2018
- Duration15
- Project descriptionThe Sofala Community Carbon Project (the Project) is developing sustainable land use and rural development activities in communities around and within the buffer zones of Gorongosa and Marromeu National Parks both in central Mozambique, to improve rural livelihoods, habitat restoration, forest management and conservation of biodiversity. The project is designed to both restore land degraded through shifting cultivation and reduce pressure on remaining woodland through the planting of nitrogen fixing trees to enrich the soil. The project is also generating verified emission reductions (VERs). The project is a flag-ship Plan Vivo project and has been operating under the Plan Vivo Standard since its inception. The Project is split into two sites, the Gorongosa and Zambezi Delta project sites. Both sites include a large number of rural smallholders, and promotes the adoption of sustainable land use management. Individual smallholders can choose to adopt mitigation activities from a menu of 9 different land use systems: homestead planting, Faidherbia dispersed interplanting, Gliricidia dispersed interplanting, non-burning of agri-residues, field boundary planting, mango orchard growing, cashew orchard growing, woodlot creation and finally REDD, (seven agro-forestry, one agricultural and one forestry). For each system that a producer decides to adopt, a contract is established between him or her and the project developer which includes a carbon calculator derived from the technical specification. The project developer provides guidance on how to adopt the system and monitors implementation thereby providing a basis for carbon payments. The approach of the project is programmatic and aggregates many carbon producers activities on individually managed land under one project umbrella. REDD management areas can be either wooded community areas or woodland owned by an individual community member, they do not have to have contiguous borders. The smallest REDD area is 2ha, the largest is 5,249 ha.
- Objective 1development, social development
- Objective 2biodiversity conservation
- Objective 3climate
- Deforestation driverscharcoal production, fire, industrial wood exploitation, local livelihoods, slash and burn agriculture
- Type of forestdry|humid
- Project activityARR|REDD
- Project TypeREDD
- Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activityagroforestry
- Multiple locations?Yes
- Jurisdiction level 1Province : Sofala
- Jurisdiction level 2District: Gorongosa
Carbon accounting
- Crediting period2002-2009
- Period to calculate annual carbon credits
- Annual carbon credits
- Total carbon credits1111576
- Leakage is expected?ND
- Carbon pools includedND
- Gasses includedND
- Reference period start yearND
- Reference period end yearND
- Carbon standard 1Plan vivo
Carbon certification
- Carbon standard 1 Progresscertified
- Carbon standard 1 Publication date39083
- Carbon standard 1 Weblinkshttp://www.planvivo.org/project-network/sofala-mozambique/
- Carbon standard 1 Expiry date42248
- Carbon standard 2CCB
- Carbon standard 2 Progressexpired
- Carbon standard 2 Publication date40422
- Carbon standard 2 Weblinkshttp://www.climate-standards.org/2009/10/28/sofala-community-carbon-project/
- Carbon standard 2 Expiry date42248
- Carbon standard 3none
- Carbon standard 3 ProgressND
- Carbon standard 3 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 3 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 3 Expiry dateND
- Source of informationhttp://www.planvivo.org/projects/registeredprojects/sofala-community-carbon-mozambique/; http://www.climate-standards.org/2009/10/28/sofala-community-carbon-project/ ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/nhambita-community-carbon-project ; http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/projects.php ; http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/projects_gorongosa.php ; http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/projects_zambezi.php ; http://mer.markit.com/br-reg/public/project.jsp?project_id=100000000000169 ;
Community level intervention
- Any monetary benefits?Yes
- Monetary benefit typeConditional
- Monetary benefit detailFunding to community-managed trust fund per hectare of land protected | Financing both up-front for activity implementation and ex-post from offsett sales | Farmers paid $4.46/tCO2e over 7 years for agroforestry (at least 1/3 of total offsett revenues) |
- Provides employment?Yes
- Are there non-cash benefits?Yes
- Economic activities - typeagriculture | agroforestry | microenterprise | processing and commercialization
- Is there tenure clarification?No
- Is there environmental education?Yes
- Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?No
- Is there forest enhancement?Yes
- Is there community infrastracture improvement?Yes
- Is there other community benefits?Yes