The biochar initiative in Kenya

August 30, 2012
Ankur Sohanpal

Kenya’s poor are some of the world’s primary sufferers of climate change – deforestation caused a loss of nutrition in soil and late and inadequate rains every year ensured that poor farmers had to struggle to feed their families. This mobilized Salim Shaban, to fix things – forming a meaningful relationship which scaled the  usage of biochar stoves which produced less smoke, let families save enough on fuel costs to pay for it in 3-6 months, and the charred fuel wood considerably increased farm outputs, enough to put families out of poverty. Read more here.



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