01About

We work at the
bottom of the supply chain.

Not in a laboratory and not in a policy paper. In flooded paddies in Niger State, alongside the people who will decide whether any of this is worth doing twice.

An integrated climate-smart agriculture and carbon-removal enterprise, turning agricultural residues into high-quality biochar, regenerative soil products, renewable process energy and measurable climate value.

We deploy efficient, low-emission pyrolysis systems that convert rice husks and straw, maize cobs and stalks and other responsibly sourced residues into stable, carbon-rich products. The circular model reduces open-field burning and uncontrolled decomposition while improving soil productivity, strengthening agricultural resilience and creating income across rural value chains.

The problem
is the soil.

Across much of West Africa the constraint on yield is not seed and often not even fertiliser. It is soil that has been cropped for decades without anything being returned to it: acidic, low in organic matter, unable to hold water through a dry spell or hold nutrients through a rain.

Fertiliser applied to soil like that largely washes through. The farmer pays for inputs that leave the field before the crop can use them. Fixing the soil's ability to hold things is the precondition for everything else, and that is what biochar does.

A farmer applying biochar from a wide pan in a rice field, hills and cloud behind

A crew transplanting rice seedlings into a prepared paddy

What we hold to

Sustainability
Every solution has to hold up over decades of soil health, not one harvest.
Collaboration
Farmers, researchers, environmental organisations and policymakers. The problem is too large for any of them alone.
Innovation
Continuously seeking better ways to harness biochar for African conditions specifically.
Integrity
Transparent practice and claims we can show you the coordinates for.

Training

Capacity that
stays behind.

A demonstration of powered tillage at Suntale, Niger State, recorded on 3 August 2026. Equipment that arrives and leaves changes nothing. Technique that stays changes the next season and the one after it.

Powered tillage demonstrationSuntale, Niger State

Leadership

Who is
behind it.

Al Amin Ibrahim
Founder and Chief Executive
Doctoral researcher in Sustainable Development at the University of Abuja, with a background in finance, investment management and renewable energy. Has a track record of securing climate financing and has represented organisations at international climate conferences.
Prof. Aisha Abdulkadir
Co-Founder and Chief Soil Scientist
B.Agric and MSc in Soil Science from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and a PhD from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where she worked on modelling nutrient flows and balances in agroecosystems with the Plant Production Systems Group. On the faculty of ABU's Department of Soil Science since 2002, specialising in soil physics.
Dr. Akanimo Odon
Co-Founder and Head of R&D
Master's in environmental rehabilitation and a PhD in Environmental Management from Lancaster University, with business and enterprise fellowships from Cambridge, Stanford and MIT. Consultant at the Lancaster Environment Centre and Chair for Africa of the Scientific Research and Innovation Council UK.
Muhammad Musa
Co-Founder and Head of Operations
MSc in Environmental Management from Bayero University Kano and a BSc in Geography from Yobe State University. Previously project manager and chief executive at Sahel Humanity Centre, an environmental management and sustainability company in Damaturu, Yobe State. Responsible for staffing and operational process.
Dr. Ibrahim Yarima
Project Coordinator
BSc Botany from the University of Maiduguri, a specialist diploma in biological technology from the Nigeria Institute of Science and Technology, an MSc in Land Resources from Bayero University Kano, and a PhD in Geography and Environmental Management from Maiduguri. Research fellow at the Centre for Arid Zone Studies.
Dr. Usman Aliyu
Head of Business Development
PhD and MSc in Environmental Management from the University of Maiduguri, a first degree in Geology and a postgraduate diploma in environmental management. Fifteen years helping start-ups in northern Nigeria scale, concentrated on eco-innovation, product management and business development.