Grass Charcoal: MITDS organizes dialogue conference

MITDS organised a dialogue conference that brought together a working of renewable energy practitioners and policy actors to share information and make inputs into the ongoing organic briquettes production policy alternatives to regulate wood fuels in Ghana.

Participants at the dialogue conference
The conference saw partners actively participate by asking interesting questions on the way forward, especially with the new grass-to-charcoal innovation which has come as a remedy to eliminate bushfire burning and even felling of economic trees such as shea nuts trees for the production of wood charcoal in the northern part of Ghana.

Dr. Maxwell Ba-an Tengolzor explaining further about the grass charcoal preparation.

Meanwhile, addressing participants at the dialogue conference on Friday, November 25, 2022, at the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Conference Hall, Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Student (MITDS) Prof. David Millar, the originator of the grass charcoal and grass brown paper innovation said, “at this level, there are two major areas and one is to have a business offtake to a business enterprise, a business man or business entrepreneur who would pick it and upscale it and aside that, the impact will be bigger than what we have done so far. So, that business component is yet to come on board