01About

We work at the
bottom of the supply chain.

Not in a laboratory and not in a policy paper. In flooded paddies in Niger State, alongside the people who will decide whether any of this is worth doing twice.

An integrated climate-smart agriculture and carbon-removal enterprise, turning agricultural residues into high-quality biochar, regenerative soil products, renewable process energy and measurable climate value.

We deploy efficient, low-emission pyrolysis systems that convert rice husks and straw, maize cobs and stalks and other responsibly sourced residues into stable, carbon-rich products. The circular model reduces open-field burning and uncontrolled decomposition while improving soil productivity, strengthening agricultural resilience and creating income across rural value chains.

The problem
is the soil.

Across much of West Africa the constraint on yield is not seed and often not even fertiliser. It is soil that has been cropped for decades without anything being returned to it: acidic, low in organic matter, unable to hold water through a dry spell or hold nutrients through a rain.

Fertiliser applied to soil like that largely washes through. The farmer pays for inputs that leave the field before the crop can use them. Fixing the soil's ability to hold things is the precondition for everything else, and that is what biochar does.

A farmer applying biochar from a wide pan in a rice field, hills and cloud behind
A crew transplanting rice seedlings into a prepared paddy

What we hold to

  • Sustainability

    Every solution has to hold up over decades of soil health, not one harvest.

  • Collaboration

    Farmers, researchers, environmental organisations and policymakers. The problem is too large for any of them alone.

  • Innovation

    Continuously seeking better ways to harness biochar for African conditions specifically.

  • Integrity

    Transparent practice and claims we can show you the coordinates for.

Training

Capacity that
stays behind.

A demonstration of powered tillage at Suntale, Niger State, recorded on 3 August 2026. Equipment that arrives and leaves changes nothing. Technique that stays changes the next season and the one after it.

Powered tillage demonstrationSuntale, Niger State

Leadership

Who is
behind it.

Soil science, pyrolysis engineering, carbon markets and rural development, led from Abuja. Six people with checkable credentials rather than an anonymous project vehicle.

  • Dr. Al Amin Ibrahim, Founder and Chief Executive
  • Prof. Aisha Abdulkadir, Co-Founder and Chief Soil Scientist
  • Dr. Akanimo Odon, Co-Founder and Head of R&D
  • Muhammad Musa, Co-Founder and Head of Operations
  • Dr. Ibrahim Yarima, Project Coordinator
  • Dr. Usman Aliyu, Head of Business Development

Meet the team

Registered office

Biochar Solutions Africa Ltd.

27 Ali Baba Crescent, Jabi, Abuja
Nigeria