🌍 Biochar in Africa: A Simple Solution, A Growing Movement
Turning Agricultural Waste into Climate Resilience
Across Africa, soil degradation, declining crop yields, and climate stress threaten food security and rural livelihoods. Warm Heart partners with local leaders in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Burundi, Uganda, Liberia, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to train smallholder farmers to produce and apply biochar—a low-cost, practical solution that restores soil fertility, increases yields, reduces smoke, and sequesters carbon.
Our model is locally led, field-tested, and designed for replication.
Our model is locally led, field-tested, and designed for replication.
Warm Heart’s Africa Biochar Programs help farmers turn crop waste into a climate-smart soil amendment—improving harvests today while building long-term resilience.
What We Do
In each country, we work with community partners to:
Programs are adapted to local crop systems, available biomass, and community priorities—so farmers can adopt and replicate the approach with locally available materials.
In each country, we work with community partners to:
- Train farmers in low-tech biochar production (TLUD, trench, and trough systems)
- Integrate biochar into staple crops and farmer test plots
- Establish demonstration farms and learning sites
- Build farmer-to-farmer networks to scale adoption locally
- Reduce open burning of agricultural waste and improve air quality
- Improve soil health (structure, water retention, and productivity)
- Explore additional uses such as livestock feed supplements and cooking briquettes
Programs are adapted to local crop systems, available biomass, and community priorities—so farmers can adopt and replicate the approach with locally available materials.
Explore country program for activities, local leadership, results, and current funding priorities:
Partner With Us
Warm Heart is expanding biochar training through local partnerships and grant support. If you are a funder, NGO, or institution interested in launching or scaling biochar training:
Warm Heart is expanding biochar training through local partnerships and grant support. If you are a funder, NGO, or institution interested in launching or scaling biochar training:
Warm Heart’s work integrates climate action, food security, and farmer-led solutions—built to scale across Africa.