Dear Tushar and other members from Orissa, Please see this link and get ready to keep close view on this development. Now time has come to inform common people...
NGOs oppose bio-fuel crops Special Correspondent Foresee a disastrous effect on livelihood of people and food security Jatropha plantations detrimental to...
4th December 2007 A statement issued by the National Consultation on BIOFUELS IN INDIA: WILL THEY DELIVER OR DESTROY? Village Pastapur, Medak District, Andhra...
Namibia: Energy Crops Could Jeopardise Food Production New Era (Windhoek) 6 December 2007 Posted to the web 6 December 2007 Wezi Tjaronda Windhoek There are...
From Cgnet.in group Chhattisgarh tribals losing land to biofuel By Savita Verma in New Delhi Santosh, a tribal woman, is in the Capital to tell the high and...
Don’t sacrifice food crops for Jatropha' By Bongile Mavuso LOCALS have been encouraged to use their own land to grow jatropha plant which will be used to...
Today's biofuel crops may be tomorrow's weeds PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY PM - Monday, 3 December , 2007 18:38:00 Reporter: Paula Kruger MARK COLVIN: The Bali...
Biofuels, blessing or curse? by Thijs Westerbeek* 03-12-2007 Biofuels are controversial. Proponents point to their climate-neutral character (the growing...
Africa Looks Toward Biofuels Amid Doubts Over Yields "From what I have heard there was very little knowledge about jatropha in terms of the behavior of the...
Dear Group Members, As fruiting season is on in Jatropha Indian newspaper are regularly publishing sad news about Jatropha poisoning in children. Newspaper...
Zimbabwe: Bio-Diesel Plant - a Case of 'Celebrating a Still Birth' Zimbabwe Standard (Harare) Zimbabwe Standard (Harare) 26 November 2007 Posted to the web 26...
Concern over Burma’s leap of faith on biofuel By Amy Kazmin Biodiesel and the cultivation of energy-yielding crops have become for many countries an...
Mugabe’s jatropha plant a waste of forex HARARE - President Robert Mugabe is committing scarce foreign currency to build a bio-diesel plant which he knows...
Dina Nath Tiwari | A force behind India's clean energy push His non-profit Uthan centre helps villagers extract oil from jatropha; the triple PhD holder is a...
Dear Group Members, Few weeks back I read news that National Biodiversity Authority has warned this company to stop its activity in India but this news link...
Clean technology Business Standard / New Delhi November 09, 2007 Several media reports in the past few days have brought the issue of environmental pollution...
UN 'Right to Food' Rapporteur Urges 5 Year Moratorium on Biofuels 2007-11-08 | The message of Biofuels: Biodevastation, Hunger & False Carbon Credits (SiS...
The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world Developing nations are being pushed to grow crops for ethanol, rather than food - all...
BM Khaitan group cos plan acquisitions Eveready eyeing regional packet tea brands Our Bureau Kolkata, Nov. 1 Three of the B.M. Khaitan Group companies —...
Status of Jatropha curcas in year 2022 in India. by Pankaj Oudhia This research article discusses the predictions made by senior farmers and experts about...
Future fuel 'panacea' under attack from virus; more research neede Jacob P. Koshy New Delhi: Amutant form of a virus, which typically affects tobacco, tomato...
Visit to plantations and see Jatropha failure by your own eyes. by Pankaj Oudhia Another article showing that so-called promising biodiesel crop Jatropha is...
Now Jatropha is showing its (bad) colors in India. by Pankaj Oudhia So-called promising biodiesel crop Jatropha is failing to perform in every front. The...
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Published in Business line October 10th 2007 . FYI Viren Who decides on bio-security? If there was no legislation to regulate access to biological resources,...
Dear Group Members, Just a short note to aware you that now Jatropha promoters are using all points raised against biofuel crops in general and presenting...
World grain supply not enough to produce bio fuels The use of cereals and palm oil in producing bio fuels is forcing a price hike on basic foods. Non edible...
