Lead organisation: Green Intelligence Kenya
Green Intelligence (GI) addresses Kenya’s land degradation and climate vulnerability by combining agroforestry with innovative digital technology to deliver solutions that are both economically sustainable and mutually beneficial to people and planet. Through the existing GI mobile app, smallholder farmers can document their trees, receive financial rewards, and access tailored advisory services, empowering them to participate transparently in carbon credit markets.
The project tackles the lack of rewards and transparency in carbon projects, ensuring that communities doing the work on the ground are recognised. Additionally, the project focuses on establishing traceable value chains for agroforestry harvests, connecting farmers to premium markets, where the GI application also plays a key role in value chain traceability. This approach enhances biodiversity, improves livelihoods and unlocks climate finance for long-term sustainability and restoration.
Smart Productive Farms has been selected as one of the RAIN bridge fund recipients. Bridge funding supports selected projects to sustain and build on their work during 2026. This funding is intended to provide a strategic bridge between the original RAIN award and future pathways for scale, influence, or longer-term financing. Building on their work, the bridge funding will allow Green Intelligence to scale this proven model by enabling farmer-driven traceability, direct payments, and expanded buyer partnerships. Aiming to support 6,300 people, it connects regenerative harvests to premium markets, strengthens livelihoods, and positions agroforestry as a competitive, nature-positive solution for climate resilience and sustainable value chains across East Africa.