Carbonfarm

CarbonFarm Technology is a Paris-based climate technology company that applies satellite remote sensing and machine learning to the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas reductions in rice cultivation. Its proprietary models remotely detect farming practices such as water management (including alternate wetting and drying) and straw management, then use scientifically validated emissions models that account for observed practices, growing conditions and soil type to estimate baseline and project emissions. Because remote sensing data can be used retrospectively, the company states it can reconstruct historical baselines and verify additionality claims at the level of individual paddies.

Beyond MRV, the company positions itself as an end-to-end provider: it supports project design, satellite-based monitoring, GHG quantification, management of the certification process with carbon registries including Verra and Gold Standard, and the sale of resulting credits. It supports Article 6 projects, Scope 3 quantification for corporate rice buyers, and voluntary carbon market projects. The company frames satellite data as an independent alternative to self-declared farming practices recorded in paper logbooks, which it describes as fraud-prone, expensive to collect and difficult to scale in smallholder contexts.

CarbonFarm's public materials cite rice as the source of roughly 12% of global man-made methane emissions and about 30% of global freshwater withdrawals, and claim sustainable practices can halve emissions and cut water use by 38%, affecting some 140 million smallholder rice farmers.