Regenerating land, from design to certification
Racines de France® designs forestry and agroforestry projects that regenerate biodiversity, water and soil, and capture carbon. Their results are certified, then supported by contributing companies.
Our certified credits
Results certified in 2026 on our two demonstration sites.
Why demonstration sites?
Before offering a model, we apply it on our own land. A demonstration site is a real site, farmed and monitored over time, where we show that land can produce while regenerating carbon, water, soil and biodiversity.
Prove
Our practices are applied in real conditions, on land that was degraded to begin with: an exhausted vineyard in the Hérault, a weakened monoculture in the Cantal.
Measure
Sensors, camera traps, acoustic recorders and inventories track how the sites change, season after season.
Certify and share
Results are certified by a third party. The sites welcome businesses, researchers and elected officials, and are recognised as a Living Lab of the PEPR FORESTT research programme.
Les Arches Castriotes
Castries, Hérault · agroforestry
A former exhausted vineyard, turned into an agroforestry system that produces and regenerates.
Montignac Forest
Chaudes-Aigues, Cantal · forest
A 1960s monoculture hit by bark beetles, redesigned as a mixed, resilient forest.
Four pillars of life, four certified credits
On our demonstration sites, each pillar is measured in the field, then certified. This is what allows us to turn them into credits.
Carbon
A tree stores carbon for decades. This storage is measured, certified and converted into carbon credits.
Water
Roots retain water and limit runoff. These effects are monitored in the field and give rise to water credits.
Soil
Covered, living soil rebuilds itself. Its regeneration is measured and certified as soil credits.
Biodiversity
Sensors, inventories, camera traps: wildlife and plants are monitored every year. These gains become biodiversity credits.
And a shared benefit, health: forests filter the air and offer places of well-being. A regenerated territory also protects the people who live there.
Why now?
For seventy years, we have produced too fast, drawing on resources we did not take care to regenerate. The consequences are not on the other side of the world: they are on the doorstep of our homes and businesses.
We can no longer produce while degrading. We must produce and regenerate.
Our method
Produce
A plot must produce something useful: timber, fruit, cereals.
Regenerate
Practices rebuild carbon, water, soil and biodiversity.
Monitor
We measure results in the field, with scientific monitoring.
Certify
An external certifier verifies these results. They become carbon, water, soil and biodiversity credits.
Finance
Businesses acquire these credits. Their sale finances the landowner’s transition.
Our certified results
On our two demonstration sites (150.67 ha in total), the results achieved on the four pillars of life were certified in 2026. They are available today as credits.
A credit is a concrete indicator of a territory’s resilience: a result measured in the field, certified and traced on blockchain. You know where it comes from and what it represents.
Carbon
29 655
certified credits
1 credit = 1 t of CO₂ captured
Water
19 091
certified credits
1 credit = 1 m³ of water infiltrated or retained
Soil
41
certified credits
1 credit = 1 t of soil protected from erosion
Biodiversity
46 923
certified credits
1 credit = 1 unit of biodiversity restored
Les Arches Castriotes (Hérault) and Montignac Forest (Cantal). A safety reserve of 20 to 25% is set aside on each project.
Life is returning to our sites
Camera traps and sound recordings: the wildlife of our demonstration sites, season after season.
Herd of red deer
Pair of mouflons
Young fox
The founder
Yann Fortunato
“A living tree must be worth more than a felled tree.”
A former financier turned forester, Yann Fortunato founded Racines de France® on this conviction. For eight years, he has been designing and leading regenerative approaches, in forestry as well as agroforestry, placing the tree at the heart of regenerating territories.
Meet the teamA model built to scale up
Eight years of field expertise, in forestry as well as agroforestry, have allowed us to build a replicable method: design, measure, certify, finance. Our two demonstration sites are the proof.
Our ambition now is to apply it with other project leaders (farmers, foresters, landowners, local authorities), wherever territories need it.
Discover our projects
Among them, our two demonstration sites are certified on the four pillars of life: carbon, water, soil and biodiversity.
Chaudes-Aigues Forest
Chaudes-Aigues (Cantal) · forest
A 1960s monoculture transformed into a mixed, resilient forest. More than 100,000 trees planted, 146.61 ha certified.
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Les Arches Castriotes
Castries (Hérault) · agroforestry
A former exhausted vineyard turned into an agroforestry ecosystem. 36,177 plants, 47 species observed, 4.06 ha certified.
See the project →Click a marker to discover the project.
Our latest articles
After COP17, the Castries demonstration site answers with results on the ground
Nature credits, financing regeneration: at Les Arches Castriotes, the answer is measured in the field.
From the Mongolian steppe to Les Arches Castriotes
A high-level Mongolian delegation, led by the vice-governor of Khövsgöl province, visited our Castries demonstration site.
COP17 Biodiversity: in Yerevan, proof becomes the condition for funding
Two months after Ulaanbaatar, Racines de France® continued the discussions in Yerevan, at the COP17 on biodiversity. Our takeaways.
Contribute with certified credits
Business, local authority or institution: acquire carbon, water, soil and biodiversity credits from our French demonstration sites, and use them in your CSRD reporting.
