Re-Colonization Of Africa Through Buying Agricultural Land …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, mozambique on Mar 5th, 2010
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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African Agriculture: Mozambique: The costs of biofuel
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Feb 28th, 2010
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. …
The Freedom Fighter's Journal: Another Failing Biofuel “Miracle“
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, india, mozambique on Feb 25th, 2010
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 …
Bosses blog: The growing concerns about jatropha
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, india, mozambique on Feb 15th, 2010
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 …
A World to Win: Forests under threat in carbon offsets scandal
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Feb 11th, 2010
The Jatropha plant is being grown by Kijani Energy of Canada in Mozambique on land classified as marginal. This very experimental process, with an incredibly toxic plant which can harm farmers as they harvest and crush it, …
កិច្ចអភិវឌ្ឍន៍: Identification, selection and …
Posted in Uncategorized, india, mozambique on Jan 29th, 2010
… no working method of tissue culture for Jatropha is known. To the knowledge of the author, 2 laboratories are working on multiplication of Jatropha : a) at Jains in Jalgaon, India, and b) at the University of Mozambique in Maputo.
D1 Oils Board splits on whether to sell up and invest in ethanol …
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Jan 27th, 2010
Myerson has proposed buying the oilseeds group to use it as a vehicle for floating a cane sugar ethanol venture, Principle Energy, which he is setting up in central Mozambique . The proposed takeover would see D1’s jatropha businesses …
New biofuels plant may fail sustainability test, says NGO | Swisster
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Jan 21st, 2010
The Aargau plant will import jatropha seeds from Mozambique in south-east Africa. With minimal treatment, oil from crushed seeds is blended with diesel to power vehicles. “We want to achieve 100 per cent renewables,” said Patrick …
Biofuel Watch: Report about jatropha in Mozambique
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Jan 8th, 2010
While further independent research will give more detail, this investigation seriously challenges Jatropha as providing for sustainable fuel and development in Mozambique . Given the trend in evidence emerging internationally …
Mozambique government cancels $500 million Procana project, citing …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Dec 28th, 2009
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