Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the largest and active carbon pools. Soils in Africa have lost 136 gigatonnes of carbon between 1850 and the late 1990s and 33 % of carbon lost was attributed to land degradation and ...

Charcoal production plays an important role in global socio-economic development as a source of income, energy and rural poverty alleviation. However, increasing commercial charcoal production has raised concerns about its ...