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Book (series)AI4Biochar: applying AI-driven field boundary recognition to the biochar sector 2025
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No results found.Agricultural residues in Viet Nam, a major agricultural producer, are abundant yet underutilized. Converting these residues into biochar offers a sustainable alternative to the widespread burning practices, which release greenhouse gases and air pollutants. The use of biochar as soil amendment could enhance soil structure while being a powerful carbon sequestrator. However, the sector’s development is hindered by a lack of detailed data, including geospatial, for cost–benefit analyses and for optimal placement of biochar production unit networks. To address these gaps, this paper introduces AI4Biochar, an AI-driven tool that automatically delineates crop field boundaries, integrates production data and sustainability indicators, and streamlines biochar production, resource management, environmental impact assessment, and market development within a geospatial framework. This paper presents the methodological approach used in the development of AI4Biochar and the results from a use-case application of the tool in a rice-producing district of Viet Nam. -
Book (stand-alone)Overview of the biochar sector in Viet Nam and the AI4Biochar tool
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No results found.This report outlines the tools, framework and strategies necessary to promote the biochar industry within the country, focusing on how to stimulate investments and ensure sustainable growth in the sector in Viet Nam. One key tool to support decisions is the AI4biochar tool, which has been applied to Viet Nam as a proof of concept in 2024, and which is presented hereby. The report explores the current state of the biochar market in Viet Nam, which remains underdeveloped despite its significant potential. It also emphasizes the need for a comprehensive policy framework that can incentivize both public and private sector investments, as well as enhance capacity building for stakeholders involved in biochar production and application. -
ArticleBiochar opportunities: Building soil resilience while reducing wildfire, insects and diseases
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.More than two-thirds of the worlds’ soils have been degraded through the loss of soil organic matter and risk losing productivity. When soil organic matter is low, ecosystems are at risk for drought stress, wildfire risk, or insect and disease infestations. Therefore, restoring soils by adding carbon- rich materials such as biochar can boost soil carbon and increase both soil and ecosystem health. increased soil stewardship can reduce carbon emissions by at least 5.5 gigatons of CO2 per year (15% of or current annual emissions) and healthy soils are able to hold more water and nutrients, reduce soil compaction, decrease invasive species, and promote microbial diversity. Biochar can benefit forest, range, mine, and agricultural soils and can be a carbon game-changer to mitigate climate change. Forest restoration activities that reduce standing tree volume through small diameter thinning operations produce large volumes of low (or no) value woody residues that can be converted to biochar on-site or at centralized processing facilities. In addition, higher value biochar could be transported to local farmers to build agricultural soil carbon for greater crop productivity and food security or used in livestock pens to reduce leaching and runoff while producing a high- value fertilizer. This paper will discuss forest managements’ role in reducing wildfire, insect, and disease risk and the contributions of biochar to soil health and resilience. Keywords: soil health, drought, climate change, microbial diversity ID: 3602348
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