Landuse has been identified as one of the critical processes to dealing with climate change.  It is estimated that the Africa soils can store approximately 20-43 Tg C /year under improved soil and landuse. However, if funds were to be committed to support agriculture and sustainable landuse in Africa, where should such resources be used?

Currently, there is limited debate on where such resource should be spent to effectively deal with the issues of both improving the practice and deliver positive results.  This table below is an attempt to generate this kind of discussion.

According to the UNCCD and FAO – Soil carbon sequestration, through which nearly 90 percent of agriculture’s climate change mitigation potential could be realized, is outside the scope of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). If CDM money was to be used in agriculture, where should it be targetted?

The Anila stove offers a crucial technology – for converting biomass to char at a household level. This design has been- provided courtesy Folke Gunther.
Biochar puts emphasis on photosynthesis as a solution to climate change and not technology.

The design/illustration here shows how to build the stove.

The completed unit.

The dimensions: