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 ...)

Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2014

How to reduce global warming for fun and profit

How to reduce global warming for fun and profit:

Power to fuel" could be used in combustion engines, which means, theoretically, you could drive green without an electric car. Kiss your Tesla justifications goodbye. And if everything goes right, Joule says, its fuel could be sold for roughly $50 a barrel, or $1.20 gallon."

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Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014

Agroforestry systems | World Agroforestry Centre

Agroforestry systems Maximizing on-farm productivity of trees and agroforestry systems Smallholder farmers in the tropics have enjoyed few livelihood improvements because agricultural productivity has stagnated, prices for basic necessities and inputs have risen and farmers are poorly integrated into local and regional markets. Climate change, rainfall variability, and degraded land and ecosystem services have kept agricultural productivity low. Our research focuses on understanding how agroforestry systems can function better, be more profitable and be sustainable in the long term. It includes investigations into nutrient cycling among trees, animals and crops; using local ecological knowledge to develop improved agroforestry management; expanding tree species diversity; developing coping mechanisms for climate variability; enhancing water use efficiency by trees and agroforestry systems; and considering tree-soil interactions to match species to sites and systems."

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Study: Biochar alters water flow to improve sand and clay | (e) Science News

Study: Biochar alters water flow to improve sand and clay

Published: Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 00:57 in Earth & Climate

As more gardeners and farmers add ground charcoal, or biochar, to soil to both boost crop yields and counter global climate change, a new study by researchers at Rice University and Colorado College could help settle the debate about one of biochar's biggest benefits -- the seemingly contradictory ability to make clay soils drain faster and sandy soils drain slower. The study, available online this week in the journal PLOS ONE,offers the first detailed explanation for the hydrological mystery.

"Understanding the controls on water movement through biochar-amended soils is critical to explaining other frequently reported benefits of biochar, such as nutrient retention, carbon sequestration and reduced greenhouse gas emissions," said lead author Rebecca Barnes, an assistant professor of environmental science at Colorado College, who began the research while serving as a postdoctoral research associate at Rice.

Biochar can be produced from waste wood, manure or leaves, and its popularity among do-it-yourselfers and gardening buffs took off after archaeological studies found that biochar added to soils in the Amazon more than 1,000 years ago was still improving the water- and nutrient-holding abilities of those poor soils today.

Studies over the past decade have found that biochar soil amendments can either increase or decrease the amount of water that soil holds, but it has been tough for experts to explain why this occurs, due partly to conflicting results from many different field tests.

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