His research focuses on novel approaches to rural revitalization, sustainable agrifood and eco-energy transition, and the relinking of patterns of food consumption and production in local communities. He is a member of the Japan Biochar Association and has been involved with supporting small-scale biochar producers/users and Carbon Minus Projects. Franco Miglietta is team leader at the National Research Council of Italy. In 2007 his team set up one of the two first European biochar field trials and he is since then one of the leading and most influential biochar scientists in Europe. With his astounding large scientific horizon, he brings the combination of many key scientific fields to biochar research. Franco led the first biochar project funded by the European Union.