Definition Climatefarming en francais

Definition Climate Farming

Climate farming uses agricultural means to keep carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from escaping into the atmosphere. Like organic farming, climate farming maintains biodiversity and ecological balance on productive, argicultural land. But climate farmers like Hans-Peter Schmidt go a step further and covert leftover organic mass into biochar, a solid carbon compound that can improve soil quality. Biochar production also creates a kind of gas that can then be burned to help generate power. A climate farm could grow food, generate power, and help keep carbon out of the air.

Climatefarming – Pour une agriculture durable

von Hans-Peter Schmidt

Le climatefarming est souvent décrit comme une méthode agricole au moyen de laquelle du CO2 est prélevé de l’atmosphère et stocké de façon stable dans le sol sous forme de carbone. Ceci pourrait permettre de freiner le changement climatique. Mais le climatefarming, c’est également un concept écologique durable pour l’agriculture du future, qui produira aussi bien des denrées alimentaires que de l’énergie et de l’air propre, encouragera la biodiversité et protégera le paysage.

Au travers de leurs feuilles, les plantes prélèvent du dioxyde de carbone contenu dans l’air et le transforment à l’aide de la lumière, de substances minérales et de l’eau en molécules carboniques. Lorsque la plante meurt ou pourrit, ou si elle est mangée et digérée, les molécules longues de carbone sont de nouveau scindées. Ce processus libère de l’énergie et donc du carbone qui, composé à plus de 99% de CO2, s’évapore dans l’atmosphère. (en savoir plus ...)

Dienstag, 29. Juni 2010

Biochar ball starts rolling in Tasmania. - 29/06/2010

Biochar ball starts rolling in Tasmania.

By Anna Vidot

Tuesday, 29/06/2010

Biochar experts from around Australia gathered for a day-long workshop in Hobart yesterday to get the ball rolling on biochar developments here in this state.

About 60 people, from landholders to researchers, to government department representatives attended the forum.

Its supporters say biochar is a way to sustainably produce energy, while disposing of bio-waste and providing a product to farmers that can improve their soils and reduce their reliance on fertilisers.

The rewards appear high if biochar projects can get off the ground, and internationally renowned biochar expert Attilio Pigneri from the Australia New Zealand Biochar Researchers Network says the state's one step closer to that after yesterday's workshop.

"We're just one day after the workshop and [so] the enthusiasm is still very strong, so we're really trying to build on that enthusiasm to move forward.

"We actually learned that quite a bit is happening already.

"From the University of Tasmania we heard about five projects [in the] very early stages, but things are happening and now we have these projects connected within the larger Australian and New Zealand network and we're hoping to build on that."

In this report: Attilio Pigneri, Australia New Zealand Biochar Researchers Network

Climatefarming in northern Senegal