Making Africa's farmland measurable, provable, and fundable.

Measure it. Prove it. Finance it.

We combine satellite imagery and targeted ground checks to measure soil carbon and land health on smallholder farms, for less than 2% of what traditional methods cost. Proven first in carbon, built for more.

$0.30
per tonne CO₂e measured, vs $20–50 with conventional methods
Measurement cost cut by more than 98%, built for smallholder scale.
The problem

Why credible measurement has been missing at scale

High‑resolution, defensible data on soil, water, and land‑use has been out of reach for smallholder geographies. That blocks proof, policy, finance, and payment, for carbon and beyond.

$20–50/t

What conventional field‑based costs. Physical audits and consultant‑led sampling price out programs that need thousands of farms.

6–18 months

How long baseline‑to‑decision cycles take. Adoption and policy response collapse when evidence arrives this late.

Not bankable

What happens to claims without defensible attribution. Buyers, regulators, and funds increasingly reject correlation dressed up as proof.

Platform

A verification stack in three layers

Measurement, attribution, and intelligence, unified into one system built for tropical smallholder geographies.

01. Measurement

Satellites plus ground checks

We combine satellite imagery with select ground visits, and we're upfront about the uncertainty in every number we produce.

02. Attribution

What's really working

Carbon levels move with weather and soil, not only with farming practice. Attribution shows what the farming itself achieved.

We isolate actual farming practices from seasonal rainfall and soil variations, so results are structured to support audit.
03. Intelligence

Ready-to-use results

The same results work for project developers, governments, and funds: one system, several uses.

Beyond carbon

Carbon first. Built for more.

Carbon is where we're earning revenue today. The same system is built to measure water and biodiversity next.

Live now

Soil-carbon measurement

Measurement good enough to issue and sell carbon credits.

Next

Policy & reporting

Data for governments and regional bodies on climate, water, and land-use planning.

Next

Water funds

The same system applied to payments for water conservation.

Next

Biodiversity

One system that measures soil, water, and biodiversity together.

Case study

Murang'a County, Kenya: first deployment

Phase 1 ran on public satellite data in under six weeks, as the first real deployment of the platform. The same pipeline deploys to any tropical agricultural county in 4–6 weeks.

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92,329ha
net agricultural area mapped across seven sub‑counties, over 900 square kilometres
43.2M
soil carbon stock measured (±32% at this stage). Carbon already in the soil, not credits for sale.
$0.30/t
measurement cost per tonne, against $20–50 with conventional methods
4–6weeks
to deploy in any tropical agricultural county
Satellite view of Murang'a County, Kenya
Murang'a County, Kenya
Pilot boundary · 92,329 ha · 7 sub-counties
Sub-county breakdown
Phase 1 · Priority ranking
Sub-countytCO₂eZone AAction
Kangema9.1M47.5%Invest
Kigumo7.2M41.3%Invest
Gatanga7.3M28.6%Invest
Kandara4.0M11.4%Monitor
Mathioya5.7M8.5%Monitor
Kiharu5.4M5.0%Monitor
Maragwa4.4M2.4%Monitor
Source: GreenScope Phase 1 output · Live dashboard →
Auditor and technical note

Phase 1 is a baseline built from public satellite data. The 43.2M tCO₂e figure carries a 90% confidence range of 20.4M to 66.0M tCO₂e (±32%). Phase 2 ground sampling is planned to narrow this to roughly ±10–15%. Measured stock is not the same as issuable credits: those also depend on project design, ongoing monitoring, and independent verification.

GreenScope Innovations is in active engagement with project developers, government bodies, and continental institutions across the region.

Who we serve

Who needs credible measurement

We work with actors who need defensible agroecological measurement, starting with carbon and extending to water and land‑use.

Project developers

Get measurement done for a fraction of the usual cost, in a format that fits your verification process.

Governments

County and national data for climate, water, and land-use planning and reporting. Decision-ready, not just dashboard-ready.

Climate funds and investors

Evidence to support investment decisions across carbon and ecosystem-service programs, with uncertainty stated up front.

Registries and verifiers

Results designed to align with BCR AFOLU, Verra , and standards.

See it in action

Watch what we built

A short walkthrough of the platform and the Murang'a deployment.

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Let's talk about your program.

Developers, governments, funds, and standards bodies are all welcome. Not sure where you fit? Just tell us what you're working on.

  • Request a demo of the platform and carbon intelligence outputs
  • Explore piloting the platform in your geography or project portfolio
  • Engage GreenScope for methodology co-development or registry alignment
  • Discuss strategic partnership or platform integration opportunities
Prefer email or LinkedIn directly?
info@greenscopeinnovations.com · LinkedIn
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Backed by
Kenya Climate Innovation Center
Member of
Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition