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Event: Biochar – How to scale it?
When: 28th March from 10:00-12:00 CET
Where:
Moderator:
Niels Thevs (GIZ)
Welcoming Words:
- Dr. Paul Luu (4p1000 Initiative)
Speakers:
In this event, we want to explore bottlenecks of the scaling of biochar and options how to overcome the same through the following presentations:
- Luo Juan, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences -
- Application Status and Prospect of biochar technology in China
- Aqeel Rizvi - CIFOR-ICRAF - Biochar
- and Agriculture
- Dries Roobroeck, IITA - Biochar use in small holder settings in Kenya – how to expand further
- Johannes Meyer zu Drewer- Ithaka Institute- The Global Artisan C-Sink: Promoting and scaling biochar through carbon sink certification and valorisation.
There will be time for questions and discussion!
Luo Juan, PhD
Luo Juan is a senior engineer, master Supervisor, majoring in environmental engineering and working in Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IEDA·CAAS). Has been engaging in research and development of agricultural waste recycling technology and equipments for a long time, as well as the green and low-carbon development of agriculture.
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Aqeel Hasan Rizvi, PhD
Dr. Aqeel Hasan Rizvi is a Project Manager-Biochar and Integrated Farming System Scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF, Asia Program, New Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Agriculture sciences. Before joining ICRAF, he served a decade in ICARDA and brings the long experience of working/researching in the field with crops and soil; and dealing with farming communities. He has successfully managed research and development projects funded by international/ national donors and has collaborated with several national institutes (Indian Council of Agricultural Research -ICAR) and universities. He was a researcher at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi, for over five years in the Chickpea Program. He also worked as Training and Technical Officer at Institute for Micronutrient Technology, Pune, India. His role encompassed the training of farmers for balanced/complete plant nutrition and the prescription of crop nutrition requirements based on soil analysis and plant deficiency symptoms. To his credit, Dr Rizvi has a good number of national and international publications in the form of book chapters, research papers, abstracts, popular articles, etc.
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Dries Roobroeck, PhD
Dr. Dries Roobroeck holds a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences from Ghent University which he obtained in December 2012, on a dissertation about the cycling of carbon and nitrogen between soil, plants and atmosphere in undisturbed peatlands of Poland. Shortly after he started working with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, first as post-doc and now as scientist with the NRM unit and Central Africa hub, and has been based in Nairobi for eight years. He specializes in the agronomy and ecology of smallholder farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with specific focus on soil health, crop production, fertilizer efficiency, climate resilience and carbon drawdown. In particular, he saw that access to clean and modern energy holds back progress while at the same that large amounts of agricultural residues and other low-grade biomass are burnt or dumped that causes much more harm than good. Because of this Dries’ attention was drawn to gasification and biochar systems for value augmentation of excess organic resources that allow to increase rural production and incomes, and mitigate impacts on the climate and broader environment. He continues to push the research and development frontier around green energy and sustainable food production by bringing together know-how, technology and stakeholders.
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Johannes Meyer zu Drewer
Johannes Meyer zu Drewer is researcher at the Ithaka Institute for Carbon Strategies. The Ithaka Institute is an international open-source network for carbon strategies. Ithaka became a leading research collaboration for carbon sequestration and cycling through agronomic methods. The Institute is known for its expertise in production, post-production treatment, and use of biochar. Ithaka established the European Biochar Certificate, the Global Artisan C-Sink standard and is developing further methods for carbon sink accounting and certification.
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