Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Mar 1st, 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. …
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. …
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Feb 27th, 2010
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 …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, mozambique on Feb 26th, 2010
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 , …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, mozambique on Feb 22nd, 2010
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 …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, india, mozambique on Feb 21st, 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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …