Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2010
An ominous cloud of uncertainty gathers around a Jatropha project in Ghana. A Norwegian company, Scanfuel is operating what is currently noted to be the largest Jatropha plantation in Ghana. The…
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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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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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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
” Jatropha was the subject of an explosion of fabulous propaganda. But this was an untried crop at commercial levels and the many thousands of marginal farmers who have gone into production have been experimented on with disastrous …
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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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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
Meredith Alexander, head of trade at Actionaid and co-author of its “Meals per Gallon” report, said: ” Jatropha is a real gold-rush crop, and the same amount of common sense that applies in a gold rush has been applied to the jatropha …
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Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Feb 12th, 2010
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2010
SVM EXPORTS grow and supply premium quality Jatropha seeds for agricultural use. We also supply treated Jatropha seeds and saplings
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009
LODI – When Max Love attended the annual International Education Week at Lodi High School as a student there, it fueled his interest in global learning and led to his desire to serve in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009
A recent study by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a research group based in the UK, estimated that nearly 2.5 mn hectares of African farmland had been allocated to foreign-owned entities since 2004 in just the five countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mali and Sudan) it studied in depth.
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