This Is CDR Ep98: PlantVillage

​OpenAir is excited to present This Is CDR, an online event series that explores the wide range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and discusses them in the context of policies OpenAir seeks to formulate and advance at every level of government in the U.S., as well as in national and subnational jurisdictions globally.

​This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. David Hughes of Penn State University to present his work with PlantVillage and discuss how we can advance biochar carbon removal to gigatonne scale.

​About David:

​David Hughes is the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security at Penn State University and Director of USAID Innovation Lab on Current and Emerging Threats to Crops. David is additionally founder of PlantVillage; the for-profit enterprises Carbon4Good and PlantVillage+; and the Village Youth Fund. PlantVillage is a public good research enterprise at Penn State that leverages AI to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and leverage their farms to mitigate climate change via AI. PlantVillage is one of the fifteen teams to have won an XPRIZE Carbon Removal Milestone Award and is now competing for the Grand Prize. PlantVillage has developed a digital monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system which is available to co-development partners including Biochar Life, Carboneers, and others via PlantVillage+ and the company's Biochar App.

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