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Global crop waste burning - micro-biochar; how a small community development
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The world's 2.5 billion poorest people - small farmers living at the far fringe
of the developing world - and their billion or so slightly better off neighbors
burn 10.5 billion metric tonnes (tonnes) of crop waste annually. Smoke from their
fires reddens the sun, closes airports, shuts schools and governments - and kills
millions of people (World Health Organization (WHO).
who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1). Their fires release 16.6 billion
tonnes of CO(2), and emit 9.8 billion tonnes CO(2)e, 1.1 billion tonnes of smog
precursors and 66 million tonnes of PM2.5. (Akagi et al., Atmospheric Chem
Physics 4039-4071, 2011; Environmental Protection Agency,
epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials; Food and
Agriculture Organization, FAOSTAT, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data) [See
Attachments 1-3. For details of the Attachments, please see the section below
entitled "Availability of data and materials."]. No one yet has stopped the
burning. Seminars, health warnings, bans, threats, jailings, shootings - nothing
has worked, because not one has offered farmers a better alternative. This is the
story of how Warm Heart, a small, community development NGO, learned enough about
small farmers' plight to collaborate with them to develop the technology,
training and social organization to mobilize villages to form biochar social
enterprises. These make it profitable for farmers to convert crop waste into
biochar, reducing CO(2)e, smog precursor and PM2.5 emissions, improving health
and generating new local income - in short, to address the big three SDGs (1, 2
and 3) from the bottom. Warm Heart, however, wanted more; it wanted a system so
appealing that it would spread by imitation and not require outside intervention.
Based on what it has learned, Warm Heart wants to teach others that the knowledge
to stop the smoke and improve the quality of one's life does not require outside
experts and lots of money. It wants to teach that anyone can learn to create a
more sustainable world by themselves. This article traces the experiential
learning process by which Warm Heart and its partners achieved their goals and
shares Warm Heart's open source solution. It serves four purposes. The article
closely explores an experiential learning process. It details the underlying
logic, workings and consequences of crop waste burning in the developing world.
It demonstrates the application of this knowledge to the development of a
sustainable - even profitable - solution to this global problem that does not
require costly outside intervention but can be undertaken by local communities
and small NGOs anywhere. Finally, it models how local communities, small NGOs and
social investors can turn this global problem into a profitable business
opportunity.