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Nika, Not that I have found, About a year ago I posted many metagenomic researchers doing work in soils. No replies.

ok, I have a question for you regarding biochar and metagenomics - would you know if there are any established projects going now using metagenomics to characterize the biomes of the various biochars across the world? I have a particular scientific interest but do not want to discuss it on an open site. is there a way to have a private convo on this site? If not, i am at nika dot boyce at gmail dot com.

trying to get through this forum system and not sure I am :-)

[biochar] Biochar Practical Guide- Request!



Yes, Dr. Reddy has posted his work to the TP list, also this was just posted to the new yahoo Biochar disscusion;

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from pgkuria@gmail.com

Dear All,

This is my first contribution to the list. I have been following the
discussions very keenly and very enlightened by the very detailed and
professional inputs.

- Recently a funding agency in Finland (SIEMENPUU)
Foundation,(www.siemenpuu.org) put aside a small grant of around 8,000
Euro to support small trials on Terra Preta in India. This is a one
of- funding and they dont have any funds for such work since their
focus is currently in other aspects and with a limited group of focus
partners in Asia, Africa and Americas.

For this particular fund, the implementing partners are small NGOs
working with local communities within their India programme.

The small grants are basically to support:
1. The Technical aspect of turning biomass into char (purchase or
conversion of stoves)
2. A small amount of money towards the using the char in field trials
3. Follow up and sharing of that data and results from the field work.

Question to the group-
- Those doing similar experiments or work in India- is there a map
that we can probably locate them? For example a google map?

- Considering that this is going to be such a big issue (food
security, CCS, biodiversity etc), is there a small reference manual on
the practical issues to consider when introducing the concept to rural
communities? The idea here is something that can be used by
semi-literate groups- who would form the majority of char users.

The information from these field experiments will be shared through-
this network and the following portals

http://www.e-plies.org (please use it as well if you have some info to
share - http://e-plies.org/?q=project/terrapreta

http://www.udongo.org
http://www.shalinry.org

Good week ahead

Peter

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We gotta get you some kind of charcoal-atar. Any contacts and/or interest in TP from India?