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George Marechera from AATF gives an introduction to the BIO4Africa training and mentoring activities.The goal is to help rural farmers and small businesses in Africa identify new commercial opportunities for increased revenue generation.

Climate change is the biggest threat to cocoa production in Côte d'Ivoire. BIO4Africa has introduced the Kapatchiva cocoa cooperative to a new opportunity.

BIO4Africa is on a mission to help smallholder farmers establish new sources of income using the waste products from agricultural production. The objectives are to make the farms more sustainable and climate-resilient and to improve access to nutrition in rural African communities. This is the promotional film for the four-year BIO4Africa project, which is funded by the EU.

Túlio Jardim Raad is a renewable energy technology consultant from Brazil and led the construction of the pilot pyrolysis kilns at INP-HB in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'ivoire. It took just four days to build the kilns and get started on biochar production. A few days later, he was on his way to Ghana to produce a similar pilot pyrolysis plant there.

Benjamin Rabdeau from RAGT Energie talks about what to look for when testing the pelleting characteristics of agricultural side streams from Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal.

Institut National Polytechnique - Félix Houphouêt-Boigny (INP-HB) in Yamoussoukro is testing the use of locally grown crops in feed pellets. The pellets will be used in feeding trials for the BIO4Africa project. Successful pellet production could improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, whether they grow the raw materials or produce livestock.

Knud Tybirk, senior innovation manager at Food & Bio Cluster Denmark visited Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire.for a recent BIO4Africa partner meeting Here he is explaining Food & Bio Cluster Denmark's role in the project.

Christina Tsouti, circular economy associate at DRAXIS, introduces the life cycle assessments that will be conducted during the BIO4Africa project. All bio-based technologies will be investigated for their environmental, social and economic impacts.

Patrick Rousset, senior researcher at CIRAD, explains how the BIO4Africa project is working with pyrolysis technology for biochar production in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal.

PhD student Souha Mansour describes the BIO4Africa pilot trials to produce biocomposites from agricultural waste for use as building materials.

Demonstration of pelletisation at RAGT Energie. Dried typha is ground for pyrolysis into biochar and the pelletisation process. Pelletisation is one of the pilot technologies selected for the BIO4Africa project.

Twenty farms, cooperatives and processing companies have been selected for the BIO4Africa business development programme. Belarmino Rodríguez, director at Barcelona Plataforma Empresarial explains the objectives.

Medius Bihunirwa from KRC Uganda talks about the key role of women in African agriculture and how they can benefit from the BIO4Africa green biorefinery

Professor Lat Grand Ndiaye from Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor in Senegal is working on HTC lab trials in collaboration with IHE Delft. The trials will test the production of hydrochar using local wet biomasses such as Typha and cashew apple. More information at www.bio4africa.eu

BIO4Africa - sustainable business models for bio-based technology

BIO4Africa - circular feed for Ugandan smallholder farmers

BIO4Africa - the green biorefinery in Uganda