Farmers Helping Farmers carbon credit program helps offset consumers ecological footprint by helping farming programs in Kenya reduce their emissions by updating technology.
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Published: Monday, October 30, 2006Saskatchewan farmers are finally getting credit for their environmentally friendly, 'no-till' agricultural practices -- carbon credits, that is.
And the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is providing a marketplace where buyers and sellers of carbon credits can do business -- and do good for the environment in the process.
"The premise (behind CCX) is to find the least-cost ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,'' Mike Walsh, senior vice-president of the CCX, said in a recent interview with the Leader-Post.
Farmers Helping Farmers is a nationally recognized, award-winning organization of community-minded people with an agricultural background from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Our goal is to assist Kenyan farmers in becoming more self-reliant in agricultural food production. Together, we develop small-scale, practical agricultural projects, focusing on direct, person-to-person interaction, with little or no government structure. Members of Farmers Helping Farmers volunteer their time to coordinate projects and help raise the necessary funds. Most projects that are undertaken are partnered with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). They financially support the projects by contributing three dollars for every dollar raised.
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