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					<title>Strait of Hormuz crisis should catalyze African biofertilizer production (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/strait-of-hormuz-crisis-should-catalyze-african-biofertilizer-production-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Apr 2026 00:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Susan Chomba]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Biochar, Business, Conflict, Fertilizers, Food, food security, International Trade, Subsistence Agriculture, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Trade, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[In early mornings across rural Kenya, as the long rains approach, farmers are already at work. Fields are being cleared, seeds checked, and planting plans quietly rehearsed. But this year, alongside the usual uncertainties about soil quality, rain and pests, there is a more pressing question: will there be enough fertilizer, and will it be [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In early mornings across rural Kenya, as the long rains approach, farmers are already at work. Fields are being cleared, seeds checked, and planting plans quietly rehearsed. But this year, alongside the usual uncertainties about soil quality, rain and pests, there is a more pressing question: will there be enough fertilizer, and will it be affordable? Reports from the Middle East echo through their favorite radio stations as they wonder about the war’s effect on their lives. As tensions disrupt food, fuel and fertilizer flows through the Strait of Hormuz — a key artery for global exports and imports into Iran — Africa’s dependence on imported synthetic inputs is once again exposed. For many countries, from 20% to more than 50% of fertilizer supplies originate from Persian Gulf nations. Besides the production of fertilizer, fossil fuels are also crucial for driving farming machinery such as tractors, irrigation pumps, and of course vehicles that transport food from farms to markets. Africa is aware of her vulnerability as a result of the war in Iran and the previous disruptions from COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, which have triggered policy and economic consequences. Frameworks such as the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan 2024-2034 aim to reduce reliance on imports by fostering local production. Currently, the Dangote Group, which operates Africa&#8217;s largest chemical fertilizer manufacturing complex, based in Nigeria, plans to triple its production to 9 million metric tons per annum. The group is also starting the construction of a $2&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/strait-of-hormuz-crisis-should-catalyze-african-biofertilizer-production-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-317598</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Saving one of Africa&#8217;s most stunning parks through biomass briquettes and fuel-efficient stoves</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/saving-one-of-africas-most-stunning-parks-through-biomass-briquettes-and-fuel-efficient-stoves/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2013 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Biochar, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Deforestation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Forests, Fuelwood, Green, Interviews, Parks, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Reforestation, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2013 Zoos and Aquariums: Committing to Conservation (ZACC) conference runs from July 8th&#8212;July 12th in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted by the Blank Park Zoo. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&#38;As with presenters. For more interviews, please see our ZACC feed. Locals investigating a biomass briquette. Photo courtesy of New [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2013 Zoos and Aquariums: Committing to Conservation (ZACC) conference runs from July 8th&#8212;July 12th in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted by the Blank Park Zoo. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&amp;As with presenters. For more interviews, please see our ZACC feed. Locals investigating a biomass briquette. Photo courtesy of New Nature Foundation. When Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern first arrived in Uganda&#8217;s Kibale National Park in 2000 to study monkeys, little did they know then that they would stay on to kick-start an innovative organization, The New Nature Foundation, connecting locals to the park through videos and visits. Nor did they know they would soon tackle the biggest threat to Kibale: deforestation for cooking fuel wood. Since 2006, the couple&#8217;s organization has implemented a hugely-successful program that provides biomass briquettes for environmentally-friendly fuel for locals, cutting down on the need for forest destruction. &#8220;The old style of conservation&#8212;put a fence around it and keep people out&#8212;does not work everywhere. Kibale was only formally established as a national park in 1993. Some of the people we are currently working with (including one of our staff) were evicted form the park at this time,&#8221; Goldstone and Stern explained in a recent interview with mongabay.com. &#8220;Historically, people in the area took what they needed from the forest, and it was sustainable. The extreme population growth has made things unsustainable, but people still have few alternatives to the traditional way of doing things. By offering people the chance to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/saving-one-of-africas-most-stunning-parks-through-biomass-briquettes-and-fuel-efficient-stoves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28886</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Biochar: a brief history and developing future</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/biochar-a-brief-history-and-developing-future/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jan 2013 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan King]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biochar, Carbon Sequestration, Environment, Farming, Green, Mitigation, and Soil Carbon]]>
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							<![CDATA[I said in my recent book that perhaps the only tool we had to bring carbon dioxide back to pre-industrial levels was to let the biosphere pump it from the air for us. It currently removes 550bn tons a year, about 18 times more than we emit, but 99.9% of the carbon captured this way [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[I said in my recent book that perhaps the only tool we had to bring carbon dioxide back to pre-industrial levels was to let the biosphere pump it from the air for us. It currently removes 550bn tons a year, about 18 times more than we emit, but 99.9% of the carbon captured this way goes back to the air as CO2 when things are eaten. What we have to do is turn a portion of all the waste of agriculture into charcoal and bury it. Consider grain like wheat or rice; most of the plant mass is in the stems, stalks and roots and we only eat the seeds. So instead of just ploughing in the stalks or turning them into cardboard, make it into charcoal and bury it or sink it in the ocean. We don&#8217;t need plantations or crops planted for biochar, what we need is a charcoal maker on every farm so the farmer can turn his waste into carbon. What we have to do is turn a portion of all the waste of agriculture into charcoal and bury it. Consider grain like wheat or rice; most of the plant mass is in the stems, stalks and roots and we only eat the seeds. So instead of just ploughing in the stalks or turning them into cardboard, make it into charcoal and bury it or sink it in the ocean …Incidentally, in making charcoal this way, there is a by-product of biofuel that the farmer can&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/biochar-a-brief-history-and-developing-future/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29812</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Terra preta found in Asia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/terra-preta-found-in-asia/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 May 2012 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biochar, Culture, Environment, Farming, Green, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous people of the Amazon produced rich agricultural soil by adding charcoal, manure, and animal bones to the otherwise nutrient-poor dirt of the world&#8217;s greatest rainforest. The inputs allowed early indigenous people to farm their terra preta, or dark earth, sustainably in the Amazon. To date such practices are only known from the the Amazon [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous people of the Amazon produced rich agricultural soil by adding charcoal, manure, and animal bones to the otherwise nutrient-poor dirt of the world&#8217;s greatest rainforest. The inputs allowed early indigenous people to farm their terra preta, or dark earth, sustainably in the Amazon. To date such practices are only known from the the Amazon and parts of Africa. But in a recent paper in the open access journal Forests scientists in Indonesian Borneo report on the first evidence of terra preta in Asia. &#8220;Our surveys in East Kalimantan identified several sites where soils possess an anthropogenic [human-caused] development and context similar in several respects to the Amazon’s Anthropogenic Dark Earths. Similarities include riverside locations, presence of useful fruit trees, spatial extent as well as soil characteristics such as dark color, high carbon content (in some cases), high phosphorus levels, and improved apparent fertility in comparison to neighboring soils,&#8221; the researchers write, adding that, &#8220;local people value these soils for cultivation but are unaware of their origins.&#8221; Left: nutrient-poor Amazon natural soil. Right: terra preta, rich dark earth, produced by human impacts in the Amazon. Photo by: Bruno Glaser. Scientists and experts have become profoundly intrigued by terra preta since replicating the complex and still beguiling process could be a major solution to many of the world&#8217;s environmental and hunger problems. Enhancing nutrient-poor tropical soil could decrease deforestation through slash-and-burn agriculture, produce more food on less land, sequester significant amounts of carbon, and lessen the need for environmentally-damaging fertilizer. Sampling&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/terra-preta-found-in-asia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30925</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Dapatkah Biochar Selamatkan Dunia?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/09/dapatkah-biochar-selamatkan-dunia/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Sep 2010 08:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy HanceOleh Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biochar, Bioenergy, Bushmeat, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Farming, Food, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Interviews, Mitigation, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Saving Rainforests, Soil Carbon, Solutions, Sustainability, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sebuah wawancara dengan Laurens Rademakers dari Biochar Fund. Biochar &#8211; penggunaan arang yang diproduksi dari membakar biomassa untuk pertanian &#8211; mungkin merupakan saru dari revolusi lingkungan dan sosial yang terpenting di abad ini. Praktek yang sepertinya sederhana ini &#8211; sebuah teknologi yang kembali ke ribuan tahun yang lalu &#8211; memiliki potensi untuk membantu mengurangi sebagian [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sebuah wawancara dengan Laurens Rademakers dari Biochar Fund. Biochar &#8211; penggunaan arang yang diproduksi dari membakar biomassa untuk pertanian &#8211; mungkin merupakan saru dari revolusi lingkungan dan sosial yang terpenting di abad ini. Praktek yang sepertinya sederhana ini &#8211; sebuah teknologi yang kembali ke ribuan tahun yang lalu &#8211; memiliki potensi untuk membantu mengurangi sebagian masalah dunia yang mengakar: kelaparan, kurangnya kesuburan tanah di daerah tropis, perusakan hutan hujan akibat pertanian tebang-dan-bakar, dan bahkan perubahan iklim. &#8220;Biochar adalah bentuk karbon yang tidak berubah yang sebagian besar akan tetap tidak berubah di tanah dalam periode waktu yang sangat lama. Jadi Anda dapat menyimpan karbon di dalam cara yang sederhana, tahan lama, dan aman dengan cara menaruh char tersebut di tanah. Karbon tipe lain di dalam tanah akan cepat berubah menjadi karbon dioksida. Char tidak,&#8221; ujar direktur utama dari Biochar Fund, Laurens Rademakers, pada mongabay.com dalam wawancara baru-baru ini. Biochar Fund, yang saat ini sedang menerapkan program di Kamerun dan Republik Demokrat Kongo, berfokus untuk awalnya pada pengurangan kelaparan dan menyediakan ketahanan pangan, memandang penyimpanan karbon dan perlindungan hutan sebagai bonus. Namun bagaimana biochar dapat membantu kelaparan dunia? Anak-anak menunjukkan arang yang terbuat dari batang palem. Kredit: Etchi Daniel-Jones, Laurens Rademakers. &#8220;Biochar akan meningkatkan kesuburan tanah bermasalah dalam cara yang nyata, cepat, dan jangka panjang. Ini penting bagi petani kecil, karena mereka biasanya tidak mampu membeli pupuk atau berinvestasi dalam teknik penanaman organik yang membutuhkan waktu lama untuk berdiri. Biochar dapat diproduksi secara lokal, dengan investasi sangat rendah, dan dengan proses yang&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/09/dapatkah-biochar-selamatkan-dunia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33703</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Could biochar save the world?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/could-biochar-save-the-world/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Aug 2010 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biochar, Bioenergy, Bushmeat, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Farming, Food, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Interviews, Mitigation, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Saving Rainforests, Soil Carbon, Solutions, Sustainability, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century&#8217;s most important social and environmental revolutions. This seemingly humble practice—a technology that goes back thousands of years—has the potential to help mitigate a number of entrenched global problems: desperate hunger, lack of soil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century&#8217;s most important social and environmental revolutions. This seemingly humble practice—a technology that goes back thousands of years—has the potential to help mitigate a number of entrenched global problems: desperate hunger, lack of soil fertility in the tropics, rainforest destruction due to slash-and-burn agriculture, and even climate change. &#8220;Biochar is a recalcitrant form of carbon that will stay almost entirely unaltered in soils for very long periods of time. So you can sequester carbon in a simple, durable and safe way by putting the char in the soil. Other types of carbon in soils rapidly turn into carbon dioxide. Char doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; managing director of the Biochar Fund, Laurens Rademakers, told mongabay.com in a recent interview. The Biochar Fund, which is currently implementing programs in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, focuses first on alleviating hunger and providing food security, viewing carbon sequestration and forest protection as a bonus. But how does biochar aid the world&#8217;s hungry? Children show charcoal made from palm branches. Credit: Etchi Daniel-Jones, Laurens Rademakers. &#8220;Biochar will increase the fertility of problem-soils in a very noticeable, quick and long-term way. This is important for subsistence farmers, because they often cannot afford to buy fertilizers or invest in organic cultivation techniques that take a long time to establish. Biochar can be produced locally, with very low investment, and in a simple, easily understood process,&#8221; Rademakers explains.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/could-biochar-save-the-world/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33764</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Congo biochar initiative will reduce poverty, protect forests, slow climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/congo-biochar-initiative-will-reduce-poverty-protect-forests-slow-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 May 2009 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.comRhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biochar, Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Energy, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Food, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mitigation, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Soil Carbon, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[Congo biochar initiative wins critical funding to support poverty alleviation, climate change mitigation An initiative using soil carbon enrichment techniques to boost agricultural yields, alleviate poverty, and protect endangered forests in Central Africa was today selected as one of six projects to win funding under the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF). The scientific committee of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Congo biochar initiative wins critical funding to support poverty alleviation, climate change mitigation An initiative using soil carbon enrichment techniques to boost agricultural yields, alleviate poverty, and protect endangered forests in Central Africa was today selected as one of six projects to win funding under the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF). The scientific committee of the CBFF awarded Belgium&#8217;s Biochar Fund and its Congolese partner ADAPEL &euro;300,000 to implement its biochar concept in 10 villages in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The approach improves the fertility of soils through the introduction of &#8220;biochar&#8221; &#8212; charcoal produced from the burning of agricultural residues and waste biomass under reduced oxygen conditions &#8212; thereby increasing crop yields and reducing the need to clear forest for slash-and-burn agriculture. The Biochar Fund says the scheme will help address lack of access to clean, renewable energy among poor rural communities while simultaneously cutting emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Farmer applying biochar to a poor soil. Credit: Etchi Daniel-Jones, Laurens Rademakers &#8220;We are very excited about our successful selection by the CBFF,&#8221; said Laurens Rademakers, managing director of Biochar Fund. &#8220;It means that the biochar concept is scientifically sound and may help alleviate multiple environmental, social and economic crises amongst the world&#8217;s absolute poorest people, while at the same time protecting a unique ecosystem that serves humanity as a whole: the rich forests of the Congo Basin. Moreover, our strategy is innovative because it does not force people out of their traditional&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/congo-biochar-initiative-will-reduce-poverty-protect-forests-slow-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Biochar and its Role in Mitigating Climate Change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/12/biochar-and-its-role-in-mitigating-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Dec 2008 05:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Salman Zafar]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biochar, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Carbon Credits, Carbon Sequestration, Environment, Farming, Green, Soil Carbon, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[The growing concerns about climate change have brought biochar, a charcoal produced from biomass combustion, into limelight.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The growing concerns about climate change have brought biochar, a charcoal produced from biomass combustion, into limelight.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/12/biochar-and-its-role-in-mitigating-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Africa calls for &#8220;full-range&#8221; of bio-carbon as climate solution</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/12/africa-calls-for-full-range-of-bio-carbon-as-climate-solution/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Dec 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, Biochar, carbon, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Mitigation, Politics, Poverty Alleviation, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Saving Rainforests, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa proposes its own solution to global warming Africa proposes its own solution to global warming Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com December 10, 2008 African coalition calls for &#8220;full-range&#8221; of biocarbon as climate solution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa proposes its own solution to global warming Africa proposes its own solution to global warming Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com December 10, 2008 African coalition calls for &#8220;full-range&#8221; of biocarbon as climate solutionThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/12/africa-calls-for-full-range-of-bio-carbon-as-climate-solution/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Amazon farming technique may fight global warming</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/04/amazon-farming-technique-may-fight-global-warming/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Apr 2008 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[American Chemical Society]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;Black Gold Agriculture&#8221; May Revolutionize Farming, Curb Global Warming Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark. Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit, scientists have found some of the richest, most fertile soil in the world. Now this [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;Black Gold Agriculture&#8221; May Revolutionize Farming, Curb Global Warming Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark. Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit, scientists have found some of the richest, most fertile soil in the world. Now this ancient, remarkably simple farming technique seems far ahead of the curve, holding promise as a carbon-negative strategy to rein in world hunger as well as greenhouse gases. At the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists report that charcoal derived from heated biomass has an unprecedented ability to improve the fertility of soil &#8212; one that surpasses compost, animal manure, and other well-known soil conditioners. Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming March 10, 2008 Biopact, a leading bioenergy web site, has announced the creation of a &#8220;Biochar Fund&#8221; to help poor farmers improve their quality of life without hurting the environment. Biochar &#8212; a farming technique that adds charcoal obtained from the pyrolysis of biomass to poor, acidic soils &#8212; has been hailed as a way to simultaneously sequester atmospheric carbon and improve soil fertility. By intensifying agricultural productivity, biochar could help reduce the need to clear forests and ecosystems for cropland while offering farmers diversified income through carbon credits. Restoring soil carbon can reverse global warming, desertification and biodiversity loss February 21, 2008 Restoring the ability of soil to store carbon by promoting native grasses and vegetation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/04/amazon-farming-technique-may-fight-global-warming/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/03/biochar-fund-to-fight-hunger-energy-poverty-deforestation-and-global-warming/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Mar 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Basin, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming The biochar revolution begins Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming mongabay.com March 10, 2008 Biopact, a leading bioenergy web site, has announced the creation of a &#8220;Biochar Fund&#8221; to help poor farmers improve their quality of life without hurting [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming The biochar revolution begins Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming mongabay.com March 10, 2008 Biopact, a leading bioenergy web site, has announced the creation of a &#8220;Biochar Fund&#8221; to help poor farmers improve their quality of life without hurting the environment. Biochar &#8212; a farming technique that adds charcoal obtained from the pyrolysis of biomass to poor, acidic soils &#8212; has been hailed as a way to simultaneously sequester atmospheric carbon and improve soil fertility. By intensifying agricultural productivity, biochar could help reduce the need to clear forests and ecosystems for cropland while offering farmers diversified income through carbon credits. &#8220;By improving access to farm inputs, knowledge and output markets, the Biochar Fund helps the poorest of the poor end hunger temporarily,&#8221; explained a statement from Biopact. &#8220;To consolidate the results, the nutrient-poor, acidic soils are cured with biochar. Farming communities are then connected to carbon markets to be compensated for their carbon storage effort. Healthy and fertile soils make the use of modern inputs worthwhile. In a later phase the rural communities are assisted in producing biochar in efficient, micro-scale pyrolysis units that simultaneously generate electricity.&#8221; Biopact characterizes its Biochar Fund as a &#8220;a small social profit organization aimed at rethinking ways to tackle the interrelated issues of hunger, deforestation, energy poverty and climate change.&#8221; The fund will initially focus on rural communities at the forest frontier in the Congo Basin countries of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/03/biochar-fund-to-fight-hunger-energy-poverty-deforestation-and-global-warming/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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