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Part I

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Sustainable Biochar and livelihoods ?

•Agriculture productivity increase

•Low input agriculture

Natural

•Local jobs and equity

•Local enterprises

Social

•Least skills

•Biocharculture

Human

•Local technologies

•Low energy

Physical

•Low carbon economy

•Low cost

Financial

•Carbon sequestration and energy security

•Mitigation and adaptation to climate change

Environment

food water

shelter climate

energy environment

CULTURAL

SPIRITUAL

BELIEFS

RITUALS

FESTIVALS

ALTARS

CREMATION

SOURCES (BIOMASS)

GOOD STOVES• TLUDs• Other stoves

CROP RESIDUE

POULTRY LITTER

WASTE MANAGEMENT• Sludge

PRACTICES

FOODPRESERVING

FOOD

CLEANING

MEDICINE

MATTRESS

TOOTH POWDER

AIR QUALITY• CO2 / CH4WATER

TREATMENT

AQUARIUM /

TERRARIUMS

BIOCHAR BRICKS

BIOCHAR URINALS

SOAK PITS

FILTERING MEDIA

INSECT REPELLENT

SOIL AMENDMENT

INCREASED PRODUCTION

SOIL TEMPERATURE

REGULATED

MOISTURE RETENTION

WATER CONSERVATION

NITROGEN / PHOSPHOROUS

RETENTION

NURSERIES

PESTICIDES ADBSORBTION

SOIL MICROBES DENSITY

INCREASE

BIOCHAR COMPOST

EARTHWORMS INCREASE

TERMITES / ANTS

REPULSION

CARBON SEQUESTRATIO

N

ANIMALS

POULTRY - CH4 REDUCTION

LIVESTOCK - URINE AND DUNGFYM / COMPOST

BIOMASS

BIOCHAR

ENERGY

BIOCHARCULTURE

Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, GEOhttp://e-geo.org | http://biocharculture.com