1. Implications and potential of Biochar
for the Murrumbidgee region

2.  Proposingan increased agricultural
productivity and environmental
sustainability’ by using biochar as a solid
conditioner and as a climate change tool and
general awareness, support and participation
from the public and relevant government
bodies.

4.  The purpose of this presentation is to provide information
and develop knowledge and understanding of biochar so it
is adopted by the government and used as a tool to
promote climate change.
 ‘Biochar, a product of the thermo-chemical pyrolysis of
biomass, may be one such emerging technology to improve
agricultural productivity and food security, while
potentially reducing greenhouse gas emissions.’(Biochar:
implications for agricultural productivity, 2011)
 This presentation provides an overview of biochar and
what benefits it will have to our soil and climate change
overall. It gives an insight to biochar, and what it can do
once it is adopted what it can do for Australian Farming
systems. J Sparkes and P Stoutjesdijk, 2011, Australian
Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and
Sciences.

5.  Citizens of the Murrumbidgee region
 Murrumbidgee Landcare
 Australian government
 Climate Change Research Program
 Research and development organisations

6.  processes and feedstocks available for
biochar production
 physical and chemical characteristics of
biochar
 effects of biochar application to agricultural
soils
 economic considerations of biochar
production and use
 risks associated with using biochar in
agricultural systems
 barriers to using biochar in agriculture

7.  improvements in physical and chemical soil
characteristics, nutrient use efficiency and
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
 derived from nitrogenous fertilisers.
 improve infertile and degraded soils.

8.  Increasedagricultural productivity and
environmental sustainability’ by using
biochar as a solid conditioner and acclimate
change tool and general awareness, support
and participation from the public and
relevant government bodies.

9.  The context of which biochar has emerged is
as a strategy for agricultural productivity,
environmental sustainability and climate
change mitigation.