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Mozambique has signed a $2bn deal to give 10000 Chinese “settlers” land in return for $3m in military aid from Beijing. Right

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Editor’s note: ESV announced in late November 2009 that it had sold its jatropha venture in Mozambique to an Italian partnership for $4 million—contingent on payment of all back wages and taxes by ESV. …

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Editor’s note: ESV announced in late November 2009 that it had sold its jatropha venture in Mozambique to an Italian partnership for $4 million—contingent on payment of all back wages and taxes by ESV. …

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Jatropha is not currently available on a commercial scale;; Despite claims it can grow on marginal land and therefore will benefit poor countries such as Mozambique and Madagascar, the yield is so small that people grow it on prime …

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Some large foreign companies have contributed to developing large-scale rice and vegetable production in Mozambique – for example, MocFer’s operations in the Chokwe area. The potential for producing biofuel feedstock, such as jatropha , …

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Meanwhile, millions of jatropha trees are being grown instead of food on farms from Ghana and Guatemala to Mozambique and India. EU companies have reportedly leased 5 million hectares of land for biofuel production, much of it in Africa …

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A Bad Zurzach (Argovie), la société Green Biofuel SA vient d’obtenir l’autorisation de construire une usine d’agrodiesel qui transformera sur place des noix de jatropha originaires du Mozambique . SWISSAID exprime sa plus vive …

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Meanwhile, millions of jatropha trees are being grown instead of food on farms from Ghana and Guatemala to Mozambique and India. EU companies have reportedly leased 5 million hectares of land for biofuel production, much of it in Africa …

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Unfortunately, jatropha is not the only thing that has been oversold in the rush to turn plants into fuel. Biofuels are spreading fast. From Ghana to Guatemala and Mozambique to India, ActionAid is seeing the consequences of Western …

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Unfortunately, jatropha is not the only thing that has been oversold in the rush to turn plants into fuel. Biofuels are spreading fast. From Ghana to Guatemala and Mozambique to India, ActionAid is seeing the consequences of Western …

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