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Arukah (noun): To Heal, To Restore

Building Markets That Work for All, from Farmers to Buyers

Arukah began with a conviction: some of the hardest problems in poverty are market problems. Charity does essential work in many places. But where communities are cut off from markets that would value what they produce and supply what they need, the most powerful fix is new market infrastructure.

Hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers sit at the base of Asia’s agrifood supply chains. They are customers for better soil inputs and energy, and suppliers of feedstock, field data and verified climate outcomes.

We integrate industrial biochar and bioenergy production, digital MRV and institutional market access into one operating model, embedded within existing agricultural systems - from rice to coconuts. We replicate our infrastructure where long-term supply-chain relationships and project economics support scale.

Built for Scale

‍Industrial Execution
Since 2025, Arukah has operated one of Southeast Asia’s largest biochar facilities, issuing Puro.earth’s first biochar carbon removal credits in Cambodia.

‍Digital Verification
Arukah achieved first-in-market digital MRV approval for household biogas under Gold Standard.

‍Aligned Economics
Farmers earn 50% of gross carbon revenue, paid directly against their verified contribution, creating lasting economic participation alongside climate outcomes.

Embedded Regional Expansion
With projects and partnerships developing across Southeast Asia, we are building towards 1 million tonnes of CO2e in annual climate impact by 2032.
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Message from CEO

I founded Arukah with a conviction: some of the hardest problems in poverty are market problems. Systems change in agriculture only lasts when it works for the economics of the systems around it - and has enabling infrastructure to support ongoing incentive alignment.

Once we landed on carbon credits as a mechanism for scaling livelihoods, food and energy resilience, we made an early decision to build deeply before expanding widely, establishing physical infrastructure, verification systems and long-term partnerships in Southeast Asia before pursuing broader scale.

That discipline matters.

Agricultural biomass is abundant across Asia and the Global South, but turning it into lasting value takes far more than technology. Feedstock, operations, farmer economics, carbon rights, data integrity, verification and long-term commercial alignment all have to work together.

Our aim is to build that infrastructure well, prove it in the field, and expand where agricultural systems and partners support durable scale. If you share that ambition, let’s build together.

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Joanna Yeo,
Founder and CEO
OUR APPROACH
How We Build
Long Term By Design
We structure projects as decade-scale infrastructure assets.

That means establishing durable relationships and clear contractual foundations across feedstock, carbon rights, data governance, implementation and offtake before pursuing scale.
Embedded Ecosystem Economics
Climate performance is stronger when local economic participation is part of the project architecture rather than an external co-benefit.

Our model seeks to align carbon revenues with agricultural supply chains so that value creation is shared with the systems enabling the climate outcome.
Ground-up Verification
Arukah claims only what can be supported by transparent, third-party-verifiable data.

Digital MRV is integrated into project design from inception, connecting field-level activity and industrial production with registry-grade verification.

Integrity precedes expansion.
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