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1. Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports

   (News/Environment)

   Tags: [Biofuels, oil, Ephrem Hassen, Castor oil plants, jatropha, palm oil, plants, Ethiopia]  ...

   Monday, 02 November 2009

2. Biofuels could increase food production, says report

   (News/Innovation)

   ... Tanzania and Zambia. It found there is enough land to allow a significant increase in the cultivation of sugar cane, sorghum and jatropha for biofuels without decreasing food production. But the report ...

   Thursday, 29 July 2010

3. Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports

   (News/Environment)

   ... oil plants, jatropha and palm oil plants are being developed over 500 000 hectares of arid and barren lands in different parts of the country so as to reduce land-locked Ethiopia's dependency on imported ...

   Monday, 02 November 2009

4. India firms invest $85m in biofuel and paper works

   (News/Trade and Investment)

   ... plans to grow jatropha and other plants on 12 000 ha of land and to build a factory that will extract oil from the plants to make cheap biofuel for export to India, the government said in a statement. ...

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

5. Mozambique's sugar cane to be used in making ethanol

   (News/Trade and Investment)

   ... month, Mozambique drafted a strategy for the production of biofuels from the drought-resistant jatropha crop, which contains up to 40 percent oil. Jatropha is a non-food crop whose oil can be used to ...

   Wednesday, 15 April 2009

6. Biofuels largest market for southern Africa farming

   (News/Energy)

   ... biofuel use. However, some countries like Malawi have been producing sugarcane-based ethanol for more than 30 years, and a new shift towards the use of jatropha -- a non-food crop whose oil can be used ...

   Tuesday, 31 March 2009

7. Uganda leads rice research

   (News/Innovation)

   ... extraction of phosphates fertilisers, the production of biofuel using oil from the Jatropha curcas plant, said to be one of the best candidates for biofuel manufacture, and further infrastructure development ...

   Friday, 27 March 2009

8. Mozambique plans jatropha biofuel strategy

   (News/Energy)

   Mozambique has drafted a strategy for the production of biofuels from the drought-resistant jatropha crop, which contains up to 40 percent oil, its energy minister said. "We hope the biofuels project ...

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

9. Africa starts to gear up for biofuels

   (News/Energy)

   ... Zimbabwe, are conducting trials for bio-diesel by pressing oil from non-edible jatropha nuts, which grow on a shrub that survives even in arid conditions. In the face of such interest, the eight-nation ...

   Monday, 30 July 2007