biochar Concept

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• Barrios, Edmundo, Senior Science Ecosystem Scientist-Systems, ICRAF, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
• Drechsel, Pay, Senior Fellow/Advisor - Research Quality Assurance, IWMI, IWMI
• GUERENA, David, Scientist, The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
• Gummert, Martin, Senior Scientist, IRRI, IRRI
• Hoanh, Chu Thai, Emeritus Scientist, IWMI, IRRI
• Karanja, Nancy, IITA, ICRAF
• Kimutai, Geoffrey, Research Associate, IITA, IITA
• Langan, Simon, Director, Digital Innovation and Country Manager, Sri Lanka, IWMI, IWMI
• Laossi, Kam-Rigne, Integrated Soil Fertility Management and Systems Agronomist, IITA, IITA
• McCartney, Matthew, Research Group Leader - Sustainable Water Infrastructure & Ecosystems, IWMI, IWMI
• Mutune, Jane, Post-Doc, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Neufeldt, Henry, Senior Scientist, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Njenga, Mary, Research Scientist, Bioenergy, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Roing de Nowina, Kristina, Deputy Director, Funder and External Engagement, CGIAR, CGIAR System Organization
• Roobroeck, Dries, Soil Fertility Management Specialist, IITA, IITA
• Vanlauwe, Bernard, Director R4D, Central Africa and Natural Resource Management, IITA, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT

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• Agronomic effects of biochar and wastewater irrigation in urban crop production of Tamale, northern Ghana
• Amplifying the Benefits of Agroecology by Using the Right Cultivars
• Bio-char Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems – A Review
• Biochar addition persistently increased soil fertility and yields in maize-soybean rotations over 10 years in sub-humid regions of Kenya
• Biochar amendment techniques for upland rice production in Northern Laos 1. Soil physical properties, leaf SPAD and grain yield
• Biochar as a tool to reduce the agricultural greenhouse-gas burden – knowns, unknowns and future research needs
• Biochar but not earthworms enhances rice growth through increased protein turnover.
• Biochar from cookstoves reduces greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder farms in Africa
• Biochar production and application in small-scale farming in Kenya: Yield increases and local perceptions
• Biochar research activities and their relation to development and environmental quality. A meta-analysis
• Biochar use in a legume–rice rotation system: effects on soil fertility and crop performance
• Biochar, soil and land-use interactions that reduce nitrate leaching and N2O emissions: A meta-analysis.
• Biological nitrogen fixation by common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) increases with bio-char additions
• Biophysical potential of crop residues for biochar carbon sequestration, and co-benefits, in Uganda.
• Biorefinery of Lignocellulosic Biomass from an Elm Clone: Production of Fermentable Sugars and Lignin‐Derived Biochar for Energy and Environmental Applications
• Black Carbon (Biochar) in Rice-Based Systems: Characteristics and Opportunities
• Cleaner cooking while producing biochar: factors affecting adoption of gasifier cookstoves in rural areas
• Competing uses for China's straw: the economic and carbon abatement potential of biochar
• Contrasted effect of biochar and earthworms on rice growth and resource allocation in different soils
• Corrigendum to 'Sustainable gasification-biochar systems? A case-study of rice-husk gasification in Cambodia, Part II: Field trial results, carbon abatement, economic assessment and conclusions' [Energy Policy 41 (2012) 618-623]
• Degradability of black carbon and its impact on trace gas fluxes and carbon turnover in paddy soils
• Dynamic biochar effects on nitrogen use efficiency, crop yield and soil nitrous oxide emissions during a tropical wheat-growing season
• Earthworms regulate ability of biochar to mitigate CO2 and N2O emissions from a tropical soil
• Economic valuation of organic and clay-based soil amendments in small-scale agriculture in Lao PDR
• Effect of biochar derived from faecal matter on yield and nutrient content of lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ) in two contrasting soils
• Effects and fate of biochar from rice residues in rice-based systems
• Effects of biochar and alkaline amendments on cadmium immobilization, selected nutrient and cadmium concentrations of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in two contrasting soils
• Effects of co-composting of faecal sludge and agricultural wastes on tomato transplant and growth
• Factors influencing the adoption of biochar-producing gasifier cookstoves by households in rural Kenya
• Key factors determining biochar sorption capacity for metal contaminants: a literature synthesis
• Maize productivity dynamics in response to mineral nutrient additions and legacy organic soil inputs of contrasting quality
• Maize yield and nutrition during 4 years after biochar application to a Colombian savanna oxisol.
• Molecular characterization of Ulex europaeus biochar obtained from laboratory heat treatment experiments - a pyrolysis-GC/MS study.
• Nitrogen turnover and N2O/N2 ratio of three contrasting tropical soils amended with biochar.
• Nodulation of beans with inoculant carriers from pyrolyzed and non-pyrolyzed sugarcane bagasse in response to different pre-planting water availability
• Nutrient Leaching in a Colombian Savanna Oxisol Amended with Biochar
• Nutrient effect of various composting methods with and without biochar on soil fertility and maize growth
• Nutrient flows and balances in intensively managed vegetable production of two West African cities
• Organic and clay-based soil amendments increase maize yield, total nutrient uptake, and soil properties in Lao PDR
• Partitioning the contributions of biochar properties to enhanced biological nitrogen fixation in common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris )
• Reversibility of Soil Productivity Decline with Organic Matter of Differing Quality Along a Degradation Gradient
• Rice Straw Incorporation Influences Nutrient Cycling and Soil Organic Matter
• Short-term application of biochar increases the amount of fertilizer required to obtain potential yield and reduces marginal agronomic efficiency in high phosphorus-fixing soils
• Short-term casting activity of earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus (Oligochaeta: Glossoscolecidae) after biochar additions
• Soil management for raising crop water productivity in rainfed production systems in Lao PDR
• Sustainable gasification–biochar systems? A case-study of rice-husk gasification in Cambodia, Part I: Context, chemical properties, environmental and health and safety issues
• Sustainable gasification–biochar systems? A case-study of rice-husk gasification in Cambodia, Part II: Field trial results, carbon abatement, economic assessment and conclusions
• The legality of biochar use : regulatory requirements and risk assessment
• Thermochemical Conversion of Rice Straw
• Treatment of organic resources before soil incorporation in semi-arid regions improves resilience to El Niño, and increases crop production and economic returns