One Acre Fund's agroforestry projects are piloting direct carbon revenue payments to smallholders to offset labour and opportunity costs to facilitate the move to sustainable soil management practices.

Carboneers is working in Ghana’s Upper West, Volta and Oti Regions, with women smallholders to produce biochar from cocoa husks using carbon revenues disbursed via mobile payments and free fertiliser.

Tree Aid, a development NGO dedicated to alleviating poverty and combating climate change in Africa's Sahel region, is implementing a project to rehabilitate degraded woodland and shrubland across 18 communes covering 12,000 hectares in Burkina Faso. The 12,000 households involved secure access to non-timber forest product production like shea, baobab and honey, through local enterprises led by women, youths, and landless individuals.

Ponterra’s ARC Project will restore a unique tropical forest, planting over six million trees from over 75 native species in an area degraded by decades of cattle ranching. ARC has a particular emphasis on enhancing ecosystem health, providing economic opportunity for communities, and encouraging the return of endemic wildlife.

OKO Forests’ landscape regeneration plan integrates agroforestry and biochar with a project that works with smallholders to restore degraded farmland and local forests.