AFRISCOUT’S MISSION: To regenerate Africa’s grasslands while improving the lives of its stewards.
AfriScout provides remote sensing, digital, and community support services that directly supports Africa’s pastoralists in making informed decisions regarding herd and land management to measurably improve social, economic and environmental outcomes. We will achieve our mission through dedicated community outreach, application of advanced sensing technology?, large-scale grassland restoration, and application of evidence-based research.
licenSing and Technical ASsistance
AfriScout is currently conducting one of the largest regenerative grazing projects in the world covering 1.6 million hectares, 44,000 households and 1 million animals in Ethiopia. Our approach and technology is scalable for rapid expansion to a range of applications through SaaS licensing, and technical assistance contracts. These applications include….
PRESERVING TRADITIONAL LIVELIHOODS
AfriScout was designed to provide pastoralists with mechanisms to make informed real-time decisions on herd and land management while measurably improving social, economic and environmental outcomes.
sequestering Carbon at Massive Scale
While the impact to communities is well established, the potential for impact to the planet is massive. By 2030 we plan to put 10.3 million hectares under regenerative grazing practices linked to the carbon market. Revenues generated through the carbon market will support expansion of Afriscout with substantial returns for participating communities.
Traditionally, pastoralists have relied on three high-risk and resource-intensive information gathering conventions to determine where and when to migrate: indigenous knowledge, word of mouth, and scouting. While important tools, they often prove imprecise, dated, or simply incorrect. Climate change has only amplified the level of unpredictability, challenging pastoral knowledge of seasonal patterns. The consequences of not finding adequate pasture and water are devastating. In AfriScout’s target areas, pastoralists are losing approximately one-third of their herds annually, representing over $3,000 in local market value, millions of dollars of losses for communities, and billions of dollars at the country level. These losses also have a profoundly negative impact on food security. With no resources to help their herds withstand drought, and limited knowledge of pasture availability, pastoralists are turning to negative coping strategies—such as seeking pasture outside traditional lands leading to conflict, overgrazing depleted grasses, reducing their food intake, and out-migration.
As the climate crisis threatens to trigger large-scale hunger across Africa, we spend billions on emergency food aid designed to prevent famine but spend far less to avoid it in the first place. AfriScout was specifically designed to address these issues and has proven its ability to impact communities for more than a decade. Afriscout elevates pastoralism as a highly adaptive, low-carbon food production system and creates economic value from scarce natural resources in Africa’s arid and semi-arid lands.
By improving grassland health, AfriScout also sequesters significant levels of carbon, providing a valuable revenue generating opportunity via the Voluntary Carbon Market.
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