Biochar: A Substance for Sustainable Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

There are several opportunities for biochar to contribute to sustainable agriculture. These include:

• the mitigation of climate change through the sequestration of carbon in agricultural soils;
• increased resilience of farming systems to drought or pests;
• the provision of bioenergy through pyrolysis of agricultural residues for biochar production;
• the reduction of nutrient leakage from soils;
• the reduction of nitrous oxide and methane emissions from soils and manure management;
• increases in yields;
• nutrient cycling within agroecosystems when agricultural residues are used as feedstocks for biochar that is returned to agricultural soils;
• the cycling of nutrients and organic matter from cities and industries back to agriculture.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions on the above topics. Others topics that link biochar to opportunities or risks for sustainable agriculture are also encouraged, including social perspecitves, policy, and economics. Manuscripts that apply a systems view on biochar in agriculture are particularly welcome.

Dr. Cecilia Sundberg
Guest Editor

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