Africa: Biofuels: Climate Change Cure?
“It is very easy for depressed countries to say we will give you 1,000
hectares for biofuel crop plantations, without taking into account
environmental concerns,” he says.

Clement Chipokolo, of the Participatory Ecological Land Use Management
Association (PELUM), says that biofuel plantations could benefit
Zambia’s poor, but cautioned about risks.

“The increase in this type of plantation production will certainly
affect the already unstable food production in Zambia,” where farming
and food crises are common, he says.

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