This document details an initial comparison of product trial cases, and associated income diversification potential in four African countries, Uganda, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal. The product trials described are being undertaken as part of the European Union Horizon 2020-funded BIO4Africa project.

The document describes the trials that are being undertaken in single countries with products produced by different technologies, and those that are being implemented in multiple countries using the same technologies.

This report also examines income diversification potential for rural households in areas in which small-scale bio-based technologies and their products are being implemented. 

Three main categories of product are being piloted through 22 pilot trials: animal feed and whey from green biorefinery technology; biochar products from carbonisation technology, i.e. slow pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC); and pellets and briquettes from densification technologies. 

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