This Project by Varaha ClimateAg is supporting the local community's decades old quest to bring back to life their home and Asia's second largest grassland, the Banni Grassland Reserve in the Kutch Region of India, sequester millions of tonnes of CO2 in the process and provide a massive source of sustainable livelihood to the local community. For the last 1000 years the Maldhari's a silvo pastoral community has been residing in the grasslands. About half a century ago, some poor governance decisions to reduce desertification and promote desalination in the surrounding arid regions lead to the introduction of the foreign species called Prosopys Juliflora. The species entered the Banni region and rapidly took over the local grassland ecosystem, as of 2023 up to 60% of the grassland cover has been infested. Apart from severely affecting the local's pastoral way of life, it has substantially depleted the ground water table and increased soil salinity in what originally was the sweetest soil in the region, supporting a flourishing ecosystem. Triggered by extreme dearth of grass resources to support a pastoral lifestyle, the Maldhari's have been rapidly transitioning to a livelihood of illegaly selling millions of tonnes of wood directly or indirectly in the form of charcoal for energy purposes thus becoming a huge source of carbon emissions. This project is enabling the community to use the biomass excavated by our local NGO partner working extensively for restoration in producing high quality biochar and applying the same on the land ridden from invasion and permanently sequestering carbon dioxide. The community will reap the miraculaous effects of biochar in restoring their home and transition towards a sustainable livelihood, thus becoming a model of Circular economy for the world.