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ESMC Utilizing HabiTerre’s Modeling Services for Eco-Harvest Agricultural Carbon Projects
HabiTerre’s third-party validated model provides ESMC more efficient and accurate modeling data for Eco-Harvest Scope 3 agricultural outcomes.
The Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC), a non-profit, market program that pays farmers and ranchers for their environmental services to society, has chosen HabiTerre, an advanced technology company specializing in environmental and productivity insights for agriculture, to provide modeling services to ESMC’s Eco-Harvest market program. Starting in 2024, HabiTerre will provide exclusive project modeling for Eco-Harvest data in the U.S. using HabiTerre’s third-party validated model. The combination of advanced modeling, remote sensing, and AI reduces the data collection burden on both ESMC staff and Eco-Harvest producers. This improves accuracy and value creation for farmers and ranchers, while further reducing barriers to scale.
ESMC and HabiTerre partnered on a pilot project in 2023 to evaluate HabiTerre’s approach to high-quality quantification of field-level net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – including soil organic carbon gain or loss, nitrous oxide and methane emissions – to accurately quantify environmental impacts. Based on the success of this project, ESMC will use HabiTerre’s modeling capabilities for all U.S.-based Eco-Harvest project data. To ensure the modeled Scope 3 outcomes are scientifically rigorous, ESMC will continue to align with existing verification standards.
ESMC brings together a powerful network of over 60 members and partners from across the agriculture supply chain to reduce supply chain greenhouse gas emissions through the Eco-Harvest market program. HabiTerre’s system-of-systems approach leverages leading-edge science and technology to serve farmers, corporations, and policymakers across the agriculture supply chain. This approach reduces extensive data gathering needs by quantifying environmental outcomes at the field level.
Alana Pacheco, ESMC’s Executive Director, has been leading this collaboration over the past 18 months. She notes:
“HabiTerre's unique modeling technologies and services have shown us a more refined and clearer path to offering precise, scalable solutions for carbon and greenhouse gas measurement. This collaboration allows our team to deliver high-quality Scope 3 outcomes to buyers throughout the agricultural supply chain and to increase program offerings to producers. By optimizing data collection and sampling at the field-level, and incorporating HabiTerre’s scenario modeling, we can maximize producer opportunities to increase participation in our programming.”
HabiTerre is thrilled to partner with ESMC to help them best serve their extensive network of commercial partners and participating farms.
"Based upon a very strong pilot engagement over the past year, we are excited about the value we can bring to ESMC's already strong foundation with our third party validated, scientifically rigorous, and truly novel approach to agroecological modeling. Through this work, we aim to enhance outcome quantification accuracy and reduce the burden of data collection, addressing key barriers to success and scalability for environmental markets in ag," says Nick Reinke, HabiTerre CEO.
About ESMC
www.ecosystemservicesmarket.org
Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) is a non-profit public-private partnership that compensates farmers and ranchers who improve the environment through their agricultural practices. Our voluntary market program, Eco-Harvest, is an accredited end-to-end digitized solution to decarbonize agriculture that helps corporates meet their natural resource needs through standards-based, reportable outcomes. The program incentivizes, quantifies, and verifies (through independent third-party experts) carbon, greenhouse gas, and water outcomes annually, paying farmers and ranchers from the sale of these Scope 3 outcomes to corporates.
About HabiTerre
www.habiterre.com
The HabiTerre team is dedicated to making the world a better and more habitable place by advancing sustainable agriculture and land stewardship with a holistic systems approach to farm productivity and resource use efficiency. We do this by helping farmers and the ag value chain maximize profitability and resilience by reducing negative environmental impacts like GHG emissions, nutrient, soil and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) loss, and water use inefficiencies.
These capabilities and supporting technologies were developed at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to scalably, accurately, and cost-effectively quantify agricultural productivity and environmental impacts with the utmost scientific rigor. We use our leading-edge technology combining remote sensing, process models, and artificial intelligence to evaluate past, present and future cropland performance, including crop rotation, management history, yield, water use, nutrient dynamics, GHG emissions, and carbon sequestration.
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