{"id":1128,"date":"2018-03-13T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T10:37:42","slug":"identifying-economically-viable-uses-of-biochar-from-participatory-trials-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/03\/13\/identifying-economically-viable-uses-of-biochar-from-participatory-trials-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying economically viable uses of biochar from participatory trials in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1129\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1129 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/steiner-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/steiner-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/steiner-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/steiner.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Steiner et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Urban agriculture in West African cities is characterized by fast crop rotations and high inputs and outputs on relatively small land areas. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-017-0486-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steiner et al.<\/a> used a novel approach to evaluate the economic realities of farmers in a semi-participatory trial where farmers both produced and applied biochar in their soils. They showed that the use of biochar prompted farmers to improve their plot management. They assess that labor considerations and the availability of feedstock determine mainly farmers technology for biochar production.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-017-0486-y'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban agriculture in West African cities is characterized by fast crop rotations and high inputs and outputs on relatively small land areas. Scientists Steiner et al. used a novel approach to evaluate the economic realities of farmers in a semi-participatory trial where farmers both produced and applied biochar in their soils. They showed that the &#8230; <a title=\"Identifying economically viable uses of biochar from participatory trials in Ghana\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/03\/13\/identifying-economically-viable-uses-of-biochar-from-participatory-trials-in-ghana\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Identifying economically viable uses of biochar from participatory trials in Ghana\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}