At the annual Future Food Asia forum organised by ID Capital partnering with IFC, A*Star, and leading industry players like Adisseo and Buhler, Arukah was grateful for the opportunity to share on a dMRV panel our approach and findings to date on the critical importance of aligning climate action with farmer incentives to deliver high integrity climate mitigation at scale.

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Arukah’s insight and conviction is farmers are not incidental beneficiaries but instead core agents required to drive and sustain change in our region’s agriculture and food systems.

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Designing and scaling large scale systems change will require situating and incentivising them as such. At Arukah, our integrated end-to-end dMRV platform — currently the only dMRV approved globally by Gold Standard for biogas — we channel 50% of carbon credit revenue directly to farmers for verified project participation.

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For instance, we shared key findings from our project in household scale biogas production from livestock manure - namely, a measurable increase in motivation and participation when farmers can earn payments in proportion to their activities.

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For instance, in A/B tests run in India since 2H24, we fully metered all digesters and all aspects of the project were similar except for farmer-level payments. 

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Based on our initial findings, farmers in villages with no payments for verified biogas processing dropped off usage significantly over time. 

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In contrast, usage is sustained and even increased over time where farmers are paid for verified processing.

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This demonstrates that tangible and equitable economic incentives are critical to sustaining and scaling farmer action at scale.

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We enjoyed the rich discussion with fellow panelists and conference participants, and we look forward to many fruitful collaborations to come. With livelihoods at the heart of our model, Arukah leverages digital MRV, biometric ID systems, and licensed digital payment infrastructure to ensure transparency, traceability, and trust. This foundation uniquely positions us to unlock large scale, high integrity, nature-based climate mitigation from the Global South, while supporting the development of more resilient, inclusive, and community-driven food systems.

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Please do reach out to us if you share our vision and would like to partner as a carbon credit buyer or project financier.

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