Supporting Nigerian farmers by transforming food waste into valuable material
Academics from Teesside University are collaborating with counterparts in Nigeria on a groundbreaking project to turn food waste into a valuable material used to restore the environment and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The University is teaming up the University of Ibadan and Niji group, a Nigerian agricultural company, to deliver an African Agricultural Knowledge Transfer Partnership (AA KTP) project, looking at how waste from the cassava plant can be used to produce biochar. Biochar is a charcoal-like product which has multiple useful properties including