Gliricidia Carbon
Gliricidia Carbon
Gliricidia Sepium is a rapidly growing, nitrogen fixing, short-rotation coppicing tree that is found growing throughout Sri Lanka. Gliricidia has manifold benefits as a shade tree, as a support tree and as a live fence; its branches can be used for fuel and its leaves used to make fertiliser and livestock fodder.
By collaborating with many entities – both state institutions and private companies – to plant Gliricidia trees as a live fence and as an intercrop with cash crops (tea, coconut and as a support tree on pepper plantations), this project will demonstrate the benefits of aggregation to achieve UN SDG 17 at scale.
Gliricidia Carbon will be a transformative agroforestry project for the global carbon market, registered on VERRA with methodologies that have been developed under AFOLU.
Social Benefits of Gliricidia planting
Save money on use of chemical fertilisers
Protect water table from overuse of chemical fertiliser
Sustainable agriculture methods to improve crop yields
Enable Sri Lanka to be climate resilient
Climate action courses in Universities and Schools
Increase farmer income through
carbon financing
Gliricidia fencing is a potential deterrent to the human elephant conflict
Reduce Chronic Kidney Disease development
Other Benefits of Gliricidia planting
Nitrogen fixing plant and improves soil quality
Use of Gliricidia as green manure increases soil carbon stocks
Gliricidia has a low intake of soil nutrients
35 kg of Gliricidia leaves can provide the entire Urea requirement of a single coconut tree
Targeted UN Sustainability Development Goals
