We believe the best way to solve the invasive species crisis is to build a business around it. Riziki converts Kenya's woody invasive weeds into biochar and soil amendment, restoring land, generating carbon credits, and creating real income for local communities.
About Us
We transform invasive species into restored land, carbon removal, and community income, starting with Kenya's invasive mesquite, creating the most cost-effective path to land restoration on the market, a triple win for carbon buyers, the planet, and local communities.
Riziki turns invasive land degradation into rural income, restored soils, and verified climate value, powered by a mobile, tech-enabled biochar unit that deploys where the problem is and puts local communities to work solving it. Community members are employed to restore agricultural and conservation land, generating verified carbon removal credits and an organic soil amendment.
The result drives impact across four areas: ecosystem restoration through invasive mesquite removal, rural livelihoods through mesquite removal and biochar production jobs, smallholder support through restored land and free agronomic guidance through the first crop season, and women's economic inclusion in communities where up to 85% of women are unemployed.
Restoring land from invasive woody species while increasing rural livelihoods.
Riziki envisions a world without invasive species, where people and planet thrive.
The greatest risks from invasive species fall on the developing economies and biodiversity hotspots that can least afford them.
Part of a 64-million-hectare global footprint, an area the size of France, costing Kenya's economy $2.4 billion per year.
89% are in rural areas. Affected communities earn as little as $0.32 per person per day, and affected women as little as $0.06.
Existing responses fall short: clearance is manual and prohibitively expensive, and government programs lack the scale and funding to make a dent.
Our Partnerships & Revenue Model
We partner with governments, communities, and implementing organizations to scale this work, turning invasive species into biochar, soil amendment, carbon credits, and local income.
Produced to Puro.earth standards, our biochar locks carbon into the soil for centuries. We sell verified carbon removal credits, and are also interested in forward credits for buyers looking to secure future removals.
The same feedstock and kiln process also produces a soil amendment that improves water retention, boosts microbial activity, and increases crop yields for farmers and land managers.
We sell and license our proprietary Orpheus 1 kiln to partners around the world, extending our model to other producers working to remove invasive species from their own land.
Carbon Removal Credits
Biochar is a high-carbon material produced through the thermal decomposition of biomass in a low-oxygen environment, a process known as pyrolysis. Our feedstock is woody invasive species like mesquite, converted using our proprietary Orpheus 1 kiln so that the carbon they contain is captured and locked into the soil for centuries instead of being released back into the atmosphere.
We produce biochar to Puro.earth standards, ensuring high-quality, verified carbon sequestration. Our biochar credits provide businesses with a credible, measurable way to offset emissions while directly funding the removal of invasive species and the restoration of degraded land. We are also interested in selling forward credits to buyers looking to secure future carbon removals.
Purchase Carbon Removal CreditsBiochar
Our biochar soil amendment is produced from woody invasive species like mesquite, processed through our proprietary Orpheus 1 kiln. Applied to depleted or degraded soil, it improves water retention, boosts microbial activity, and increases crop yields, turning land that invasive species have damaged into land that supports agriculture again.
For farmers and land managers, it offers a practical way to rebuild soil health while directly supporting the removal of invasive species from the landscape.
Purchase BiocharWhere We Operate
Operations are running in Baringo County with active land agreements across farm and conservation land. Expansion into Kajiado, Turkana, and Samburu is underway.
Our proof-of-concept operation, running since 2022 with 25 mobile kilns across farm and conservation land. Community land agreements with Kibogoch and Shompole conservancies, supported by a formal partnership with Baringo County Government and scientific oversight from KEFRI.
Active planning for deployment across Kajiado, Turkana, and Samburu counties, each home to significant mesquite encroachment and underserved pastoralist communities. Existing kiln production capacity and community engagement frameworks are directly replicable across these geographies.
The Riziki model is feedstock-agnostic and geography-flexible. Anywhere invasive species degrade land and impoverish communities, our mobile kiln infrastructure can be deployed. Kiln technology licensing and operational partnerships extend our reach beyond direct operations.
Contact Us
We'd love to hear from you! Whether you have a question, feedback, or want to learn more about our projects, feel free to send us a message.
Verified, Puro.earth-standard carbon removal credits, including forward credits for future removals.
Rebuild degraded soil health while supporting the removal of invasive species from the landscape.
Replicate the Riziki model on your own land with the Orpheus 1 mobile pyrolysis kiln.
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