[Stoves] Household Energy, Biochar, and Conservation Agriculture in Africa

Sun Jul 15 13:12:55 CDT 2018

The two year lab and field study, “Biochar: Potential for Improving Crop Productivity and Stemming Land Degradation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi”, will test biochar from TLUDs and Kon Tiki’s on acidic soils. The objective is to determine if “amending infertile granitic soils in Sothern Africa will increase SOM, soil water holding capacity, nutrient use efficiency, and crop productivity”. Dr. Machado is a Dryland Cropping Systems Agronomist at the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University, Pendleton, Oregon. He is from Zimbabwe and will be collaborating with professors in each of the three countries: Dr. Willis Gwenzi, Soil Scientist, University of Zimbabwe; Dr. H Simfukwe, Mulungushi University, Zambia; Dr. P. C. Nalivata and Dr. J. Chimungu, Soil Chemistry and Fertility, Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources. This is an excellent team of agronomists and soil scientists who have experience with improved cooking stoves. I’m sure that you will get to know them in the course of the project. 

IBI is exploring ways in which we can support the scaleup of these research and demonstration projects. Biochar from cookstoves and Kon Tiki’s has shown good results at the household and smallholder scale, especially when used in combination with conservation farming. We would like to build on those successes and avoid using biochar where it doesn’t add value to household energy, economy, or well-being.   

Tom 

Tom Miles

Chair 

International Biochar Initiative

Biochar-international.org

From: Stoves <stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org> On Behalf Of Paul Anderson
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2018 5:30 PM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Household Energy, Biochar, and Conservation Agriculture in Africa

Tom,

Thanks.   Great.    But if the word "you" is referring to me, there is something  incorrect.   Maybe I could assist in some way, but unknown to me as of now.

Best wishes to Machado, Gwenzi (whom I do not know) and whoever the "you" is.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu> 
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com <http://www.drtlud.com> 

On 7/14/2018 3:03 PM, Tom Miles wrote:

Zambia - Norway project. Good reporting and several sites. I’ll send a letter NL 

Current project is the one you, Machado, Gwenzi are just starting. 

Biochar For Sustainable Soils http://Biochar.international  

Tom

T R Miles Technical Consultants Inc. 

tmiles at trmiles.com <mailto:tmiles at trmiles.com> 

Sent from mobile. 

On Jul 14, 2018, at 12:50 PM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu> > wrote:

Tom,

Please provide references or links or contacts for each of what you mention below.   I do not doubt you.   I and others with whom I am working in those same countries with similar stoves and interest in biochar / charcoal would really like to have that info / contacts.  And I would not want to make guesses, although I might know about some of them already.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu> 
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com <http://www.drtlud.com> 

On 7/14/2018 9:57 AM, tmiles at trmiles.com <mailto:tmiles at trmiles.com>  wrote:

Where in Africa are examples of household energy, biochar and conservation agriculture? A few years ago a very successful project in Zambia demonstrated the use of gasifying stoves used to make biochar, which was incorporated in locally formulated organic fertilizers at the household level. A similar project is just starting in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi. Where else in Africa can we find examples of biochar made by households and producer groups and used in conservation agriculture?

Thanks

Tom Miles

Chair, International Biochar Initiative

Biochar-international.org <http://Biochar-international.org> 

tmiles at trmiles.com <mailto:tmiles at trmiles.com> 

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