Djeutchou has figured out how to make it out of things like banana peels. Unlike most charcoal, his biochar doesn't require deforestation. Cameroon has a vast forest, but it's getting smaller.

On the green hills of Ngoumou, cocoa, coffee, banana and pineapple plantations stretch as far as the eye can see. The district in the Centre Region of Cameroon is a rapidly developing agricultural hub ...

To address deforestation in Cameroon, an environmental engineer has ... shows Djeutchou going to a snack factory and collecting banana peels with his staff in large sacks. After collection ...