Biochar is created through burning biomass in an oxygen-limited environment. It is a light and porous material with high adsorptive and water-holding capacity. The Ithaka Institute in Switzerland invented a low-tech method to produce biochar that can be used at village level from crop and wood waste in soil-pit kilns. 

A new Nutrition Strategy is currently being drafted by Niti Aayog to converge schemes addressing malnutrition in various ways and improve data collection for monitoring and evaluation.