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Biochar systems for smallholders in developing countries : leveraging current knowledge and exploring future potential for climate-smart agriculture /
Biochar is the carbon-rich organic matter that remains after heating biomass under minimization of oxygen during a process called pyrolysis. Its relevance to deforestation, agricultural resilience, and energy production, particularly in developing countries, makes it an important issue. This report...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
The World Bank,
[2014]
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| Colección: | World Bank studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Biochar is the carbon-rich organic matter that remains after heating biomass under minimization of oxygen during a process called pyrolysis. Its relevance to deforestation, agricultural resilience, and energy production, particularly in developing countries, makes it an important issue. This report offers a review of what is known about opportunities and risks of biochar systems. Its aim is to provide a state of the art overview of current knowledge regarding biochar science. In that sense the report also offers a reconciling view on different scientific opinions about biochar providing an ove. |
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| Notas: | Table 5.1 Primary and Secondary Feedstock Characteristics and Availability for Baseline Scenario. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 9780821395264 0821395262 |