Villagers forced to buy Jatropha seeds at high price Junta’s local authorities are forcing people in Shan State to buy Jatropha curcas seeds at higher prices...
Dear Group Members, These days I am visiting different Jatropha plantations in order to document its status. In Indian state Chhattisgarh majority of ...
Activists against Tanzania's Jatropha project Environmental activists in Tanzania’s Coast Region have raised concern over the planned large-scale cultivation...
Gandhian flays Gujarat Govt for land allotment to pvt firm AHMEDABAD: Veteran Gandhian and Gujarat Loksamiti President Chuni Vaidya today criticised the state...
Kenya is fighting now over their empty stomachs Donette Read Kruger Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Police clear up debris on road in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday...
D1 Oils faces criticism over 'miracle' jatropha Peter Stiff One of Britain’s leading biofuels companies is facing criticism for encouraging the growth...
Note: forwarded message attached. Careless use of food for biofuel profits cause more hurt than good Tuesday, May 20, 2008 As if the situation in Myanmar...
Careless use of food for biofuel profits cause more hurt than good Tuesday, May 20, 2008 As if the situation in Myanmar weren’t bad enough, now comes...
New Trend in Biofuels Has New Risks By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: May 21, 2008 Jatropha, the darling of the second-generation biofuels community, is now...
Zimbabwe dilemma: growing food for people, or cars? Zimbabwe requires 5 million litres of diesel and 3 million litres of petrol daily. If we put 500 000 ha of...
Jatropha: Another Bad Path to Biofuels By: The Panelist Posting Time: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:32 AM Advertisement Sectors: Consumer Staples , Oils/Energy ...
Life getting tougher as food prices soar 2008-05-18 11:13:47 By Lucas Lukumbo The TAMAGRAI secretary also attributed the shortage of food to big crop farms...
1st article shows the industrial push behind jatropha to promote it as aviation fuel, 3rd highlights the glaring flaws in EU biofuel policy, 4th shows the ...
Indian film chosen for UN fight against Global Warming "We advocate planting of indigenous trees that has the highest per cent rate of growth. We encourage...
Burma biofuel push worsened plight of cyclone victims Monday, 12/05/2008 An Australian anthropologist says the push to grow biofuels has worsened the plight of...
Sunday, May 11, 2008 Jatropha Biodiesel: Too expensive a proposition? According to some new scientific reports, the Jatropha plant, which can be processed to...
`Kasla' is poisonous - biz group 04/25/2008 | 04:17 AM BACOLOD CITY, Philippines - Biofuels Philippines International Inc., a subsidiary of the Metro Bacolod...
TPDC orders destruction of Jatropha trees in public places by admin — last modified 2007-02-21 09:43 31 January 2007: With the belated realizations that...
Dear Group Members, One more case. Tamil Nadu Printer Friendly Page Send this Article to a Friend 13 children taken ill after consuming jatropha seeds Staff...
Dear Group Members, Complete report is available on-line in two parts, in pdf format at http://ddsindia.com/www/biofuel_covers.html regards Pankaj Oudhia...
Jatropha harmful for kids, soil and aquatic life: scientist By Sujeet Kumar Raipur, May 8 (IANS) The jatropha plant, a rich source of bio-fuel that is being...
Dear All, The land use group of SPWD , is pleased to bring out its first issue on biofuel. Coming out at a time when sky rocketing prices of food grains have...
Dear Group Members, You are invited to read this Hindi article. With the help of Google tools you can translate it in English as well as all Indian languages. ...
Burma biofuel drive contributes to food shortage BURMA: A plan by Burma's junta government to grow a biofuel crop is contributing to food shortages in the...
Asian (con)Fusion: Burma's BioFuel Terror Jatropha_plantation3 By Andrew Buncombe There has been acres written about the dangers of the biofuel "weed" jatropha...
Dear Group Members, Like Jatropha, Parthenium is exotic weed. It is known as Gajar Ghas, Congress weed, Chatak Chandani etc. in India. This weed harms ...
Jatropha can be harmful, expert warns By Conrad M. Cariño, Senior Desk Editor A top biotechnologist in the country said the government should not encourage...
