Current Projects

There are 15,000,000 hectares globally where our RSA system can be deployed to create regenerative blue economies and to enable coastal ecosystem restoration. Our current projects involve growing 100,000,000 mangroves, restoring thousands of hectares of seagrass meadows, creating thousands of jobs in regenerative economic development, and establishing our first regional hubs in Latin America, West Africa, South Africa, and the EU.

Mexico

  • Fishery depletion, fresh-water scarcity, and deforestation are affecting rural coastal communities in much of Mexico, which has lost at least 25% of its mangroves since the 1980’s.

  • Starting in Baja California Sur, and in collaboration with SEMARNAT, local fishing villages, and multiple other NGOs, we are embarking on a massive endeavor to create regenerative blue economies and restore vast areas of degraded mangrove & seagrass habitat, with a goal of growing 1 billion mangroves in Mexico alone.

    • Project: MELITÓN

      Our flagship project in Baja California Sur is an 8,000 hectare RSA.

       

      Key details:

      *Permits & right to purchase already in hand
      *Mangrove trees to be grown: 45,000,000
      *Timeline to completion: 8 years after predevelopment phase
      *Estimated Net Carbon Sequestered: 9,000,000 tons
      *Finance: Blue Carbon, Real Estate, Regenerative Agricultures

    • Project: MELITÓN

      Our flagship project in Baja California Sur is an 8,000 hectare RSA.

      Key details:

      *Permits & right to purchase already in hand
      *Mangrove trees to be grown: 45,000,000
      *Timeline to completion: 8 years after predevelopment phase
      *Estimated Net Carbon Sequestered: 9,000,000 tons
      *Finance: Blue Carbon, Real Estate, Regenerative Agricultures

      Project: EL DELGADITO

       In partnership with the organization Mujeres del Delgadito, we are launching a mangrove & seagrass restoration project.

      Key Details:

      • Permits in hand for phase 1 of mangrove restoration (Rhizophora & Laguncularia)
      • Good relationships with local communities & local leadership established.
      • Verification of social & environmental impact to be performed by CIBNOR & UABCS
      • Estimated mangroves grown:  12,000,000
      • Estimated Hectares of seagrass restored:  2,000
      • Estimated carbon sequestered:  5,000,000 tons
      • Project Timeline:  6 years to completion
      • Funding:  DAF + Blue Carbon

      Spain

      • Desertification affects an estimated 1/3 of Spain’s agricultural lands.  In Andalucía this is due primarily to unsustainable water use, and salinization.  This photo, taken July 2021, illustrates a 50% fall in rice production in the region, despite proximity to a river.  Why?  The river is salty, and the wells have run dry.

      • This was once a marsh, on the banks of the Guadalquivir River.  Earthworks have dried it up, ostensibly for agricultural production, but the soil is too salty for any traditional crops.  Using seawater we can make these lands productive again!

      • These tidal marshes were once a staple of the Phoenician and Roman civilizations, producing salt for centuries.  But they have fallen into disrepair and attempts to make them productive led to the destruction of seagrass groves in the bay of Cádiz.

        • Project Marisma: Wetland Agroecologies

          Key Details:

          *Thousands of hectares of applicable landscape in Andalucía
          *Estimated 200 tons of blue carbon sequestered per hectare per year–millions of tons at scale.
          *Will restore these degraded lands to productivity
          *Will increase biodiversity, particularly local aquatic & migratory bird species.

        • Project Marisma:  Wetland Agroecologies

          Key Details:

          *Thousands of hectares of applicable landscape in Andalucía
          *Estimated 200 tons of blue carbon sequestered per hectare per year–millions of tons at scale.
          *Will restore these degraded lands to productivity
          *Will increase biodiversity, particularly local aquatic & migratory bird species.

          Project: CEREAL MARINO

           Seagrasses are a critical coastal ecosystem, but also show immense promise as the world’s first ocean cereal crop. In collaboration with multiple entities in Spain, we intend to prototype seagrasses as a crop in marsh-based agroecologies in Andalucía. While this could be IP’d and used to create a billion dollar business (imagine being the first to patent rice or wheat), we intend to open source all our findings and developments from this project, and thus are seeking philanthropic funds for its execution.

          Ghana

          • Deforestation, fishery depletion, coastal erosion, and soil salinization are driving forced displacement and poverty in the Keta and Songor regions.

          • The degradation-poverty cycle will continue unabated without the creation of regenerative economies that directly address both.

          • In partnership with villages in the Keta and Songor region, we are launching a combined mangrove restoration & regenerative economic development program, targeting 7,000 hectares of highly degraded and saline land.

            Project: Volta Delta Restoration & Regenerative Economic Development

            In partnership with multiple tribes and villages, we are targeting 6000 hectares of highly degraded land for mangrove restoration

            Key Details:

            • First 2,700 hectares already leased.
            • Good relationships with local communities & local leadership established.
            • Permits acquired and collaboration begun with local forestry & lands commissions
            • 50,000 mangroves grown in 2020
            • 25,000,000 mangroves to be grown through 2027
            • Multiple community nurseries already established.
            • Estimated carbon sequestered: 6,000,000 tons
            • Project Timeline:  6 years to completion
            • Economic Systems: Apiculture, RSA, Community Coppice
            • Proposed Funding:  Blue Carbon + DAF

            Namibia

            • 1000 miles of coastline bordering the oldest desert on earth provides a serious opportunity for Regenerative Seawater Agriculture.  With seawater as an infinite resource, RSA has the potential to convert these desolate landscapes to highly productive systems that benefit biodiversity, sequester carbon, and create the foundation for new rural economies.

            • In November 2021, RRC signed an MOU with the Namibia Infrastructure Development & Investment Fund (NIDIF), to develop the first coastal RSA systems along the skeleton coast, as well as a brackish wetland agroecology in the interior.

              The potential for both these systems to solve local economic and global climate issues is significant.

              Project: Namib Saltwater Farms

               Much of the interior of Namibia used to be a massive sea. Highly brackish groundwater and a complete dearth of rainfall means much of these lands can only be productive through seawater farming systems. Thus we are collaborating with farmers to establish brackish water agroecologies and constructed wetlands.

              Key Details:

              • First farm collaboration established.
              • Multiple species trials underway

              • Project: Namibian Coast Mangrove Agroforestry

                Key details:
                *First 40 hectare site selected
                *Local Team under development
                *Funding:  NIDIF + PE + Blue Carbon

              • Project: Namibian Coast Mangrove Agroforestry

                Key details:
                *First 40 hectare site selected
                *Local Team under development
                *Funding:  NIDIF + PE + Blue Carbon

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