Our Mission
“I’m working to help my people, the poor farmers in Sierra Leone, especially the rural women and youth. Desert Water is working with communities across Sierra Leone to improve resilience to climate change while generating sustainable income now and for future generations.” Martin Kailie, CEO and Founder
1 Million Hectares
Our goal is to improve up to 1 million hectares of diverse landscapes from interior forests to coastal mangroves to agricultural land, working with communities and Indigenous leadership to improve the lives of Sierra Leone’s people.
Deforestation
From 2002 to 2021, Sierra Leone lost 32.7kha of humid primary forest, making up 1.8% of its total tree cover loss in the same time period. Total area of humid primary forest in Sierra Leone decreased by 12% in this time period. Also, from 2001 to 2021, Sierra Leone lost 1.82Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 32% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 867Mt of CO₂e emissions. The red shading represents forest loss(2000 to 2021) (Source: Global Forest Loss). We work with Chiefdom Councils, communities, land holding families and other custodians and owners of (degraded) forests and lands on reforestation and agro-forestry as carbon farming to manage and reverse deforestation.
Services
Community access to carbon finance through accurate carbon monitoring and effective emissions management systems.
Support for farmers to access reforestation and forest conservation rights through sustainable cocoa, cashew, honey and oil palm development.
Community food security from climate mitigation and adaptation through improved farming methods with drought and flood resistant crops including cassava.
Production of clean, renewable energy sources through commercialization and community utilization of bio-fuels, biogas and biomass to replace firewood and charcoal use.
Products
Briquettes from grass, coconut wastes, wood wastes, saw dust, and other wastes with no economic value and that pose waste management challenges in the country.
Biogas from animal dung and sewage.
Honey and vegetables, such that bees pollinate the flowers more of the vegetables and thereby produce more honey and increase vegetable yields.
Oil palm, cocoa, fruits as carbon farms.
Direct GHG Emissions Measurement
Desert Water recognizes the need for high quality, verifiable data for net emission reduction for CO2, N2O and CH4 as the basis for offset production and pricing. Estimation protocols ignore soil carbon and do not include CH4 and N20— barriers to realistic climate change mitigation and management. Desert Water has selected Planet Alpha Corp to make direct GHG measurements in Sierra Leone. There is no cost to projects; a technology transfer plan is under development.
Collaboration@desertwater.tech
Desert Water and Planet Alpha are seeking diverse private and governmental collaborators, partners and investors to support sustainable and economic growth in Sierra Leone while slowing climate change for all societies on the planet. Let’s start a conversation: collaboration@desertwater.tech
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