Welcome to the Haiti Biochar Project. How can we build livelihoods, food security, peace and prosperity while combating poverty, land degradation and climate change? The answer is in the soil.
“Biochar may represent the single most important initiative for humanity’s environmental future…”
Professor Tim Flannery
Australian of the Year 2008
Biochar is a charcoal-like material produced when biomass is heated in an oxygen free envirnoment. When added to soils, biochar can vastly improve crop growth while sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. It helps retain both soil moisture and nutrients while building soil organic matter. Biochar production can also generate electricity or produce heat for cooking, space heating, and refrigeration through absorptive refrigeration technologies.
High efficiency, clean burning biochar cookstoves can replace conventional biomass and charcoal burning. This is important because conventional biomass and charcoal burning creates unsafe indoor air quality that lead to respiratory and eye problems, and leads to increased pressure on ecosystems.
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