The project is is primarily focused on the climate solution of regenerative agriculture, which may be the most significant way to sequester carbon, naturally-based or otherwise. Beyond that, distributed food distribution reduces carbon emissions from transportation, which is one of the major contributors to climate change, and using food security as a lens drives expanded local food production and thus sequestration. 

Because the earth (and every ecosystem within it, including our island) is a complex system, it's necessary to solve multiple interconnected problems at once to create any effective and lasting change. In our case, we're fundamentally building a model of how to improve local food security in small communities all over the world, while simultaneously improving carbon drawdown to mitigate climate change, which in turn has had a severe impact on food production.
But climate change itself is only a symptom of the larger problem of overshoot, meaning human impact on the planet, driven primarily by overpopulation and consumption in the developed world, amplified (and only rarely mitigated) by technology. (Other familiar symptoms include loss of biodiversity, pandemics, hitting the limits of non-renewable resources, war, etc.) Similarly, food security is one of a group of interconnected problems at the local level, including housing, water, energy, transportation, health, community cohesion and lack of Indigenous collaboration and engagement.
To address these systemic, interconnected problems, we must therefore take systemic action, which can best be identified by the way it solves multiple problems at the same time.
So, because it's only one of many symptoms of overshoot, any real and lasting impact on climate change must address the real drivers of overshoot -- in our case, right-sizing population for our local ecosystem, and reducing consumption by relocalizing food production.
At the local level, the deFood project necessarily has to address all of the interconnected local problems listed above to build meaningful and lasting food security, which is why we've largely focused on the latter 2 items -- building relationships with those on our island, and with Indigenous folks and settlers in our surrounding region -- as an initial foundation for the work that will come later.
