Hi all

There is a real issue with invasive Prosopis juliflora troughout Kenya. The area in which we work - Northern Kenya - is particualrly badly affected, and getting worse every year. Certain areas where dry water courses exist, the issue is so bad it's displacing people and restircitng grazing land. It's even become impenetrable for elephant in some places, which shows the severity of the issue, as not much will stop elephants!!

The areas are too large to clear manually, for the sake of clearing alone - plus this is too expensive. The only option I can see which is scalable and sustaianble is to make use of the Prosopis either as green charcoal, or biochar. Biochar seems most scalable, and fast to deploy - plus the biochar itself could be used to help in regeneration of the degraded soils within the surrounding areas...

If we could develop a model where the community costs are covered through value of the end product - biochar and carbon associated revenue specifically - it could go a long way to addressing this issue.

Anyone with similar experience to this?

Thanks

Kieran