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...
Gandhian flays Gujarat Govt for land allotment to pvt firm AHMEDABAD: Veteran Gandhian and Gujarat Loksamiti President Chuni Vaidya today criticised the state...
Activists against Tanzania's Jatropha project Environmental activists in Tanzania’s Coast Region have raised concern over the planned large-scale cultivation...
Dear Group Members, These days I am visiting different Jatropha plantations in order to document its status. In Indian state Chhattisgarh majority of ...
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 Friends Reading mainstream articles on biofuels alongside news from grassroots people worldwide, one confronts a total madness: the mainstream centres of...
Carbon Costs 16 Jun 08 - George Monbiot - Sloweek 'Other people have hailed a tropical shrub called jatropha as a miracle crop (beware of all miracle crops!),...
Dear Group Members, I just returned from forest region near to capital city Raipur. In Mohadi village region I observed that farmers are uprooting and burning...
Spiritual wars decree A note for Mr Milliband by Donette Read Kruger Today the buzzword in crops is Jatropha, a toxic plant imported into our country many...
Jathropa downs 12 kids in Davao Sur By Orlando Dinoy Mindanao Bureau First Posted 15:27:00 05/28/2008 DIGOS CITY, Philippines -- At least a dozen children were...
16 kids hospitalized after eating Jathropa seeds. Written by Aguirre and Nilo Mercado Friday, 30 May 2008 Sixteen of the 30 children rehearsing for the...
Davao farmers slam jathropa planting, Biofuels Act As the debate over the Biofuels Act gets hyped in the Senate, the militant farmers group, Kilusang...
First Report of Cucumber mosaic virus on Jatropha curcas in India S. K. Raj, S. Kumar, and S. K. Snehi, Molecular Virology, National Botanical Research...
Zambia: Brace for Hard Times, Levy Tells Citizens The Times of Zambia (Ndola) 20 June 2008 Posted to the web 20 June 2008 For instance, Dr Mwanawasa said, the...
Zambia: President Warns of Challenges Around Food Pricing For instance, the President has touched on the need for farmers and other growers in Zambia to be...
Following mounting pressure from civil Society, D1 Oils Swaziland has been ordered to suspend any new planting of jatropha by the local environmental law...
Um... so what about weeds, then? So what about Jatropha, a pest tree that produces seed pods, as an oil source for biodiesel? Literally hundreds of stories...
Biofuels in the firing line: ActionAid comment on the Gallagher report "ActionAid has already seen people in Ghana lose pasture to a multinational corporation...
Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity' Jia Hepeng 18 March 2008 | EN jatrophacurcas_flickr_jurvetson [BEIJING] Using China's forests and 'idle land' to...
Some Biofuels Risk Biodiversity And Could End Up Harming Environment cienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2008) â€" Biofuels are widely considered one of the most promising...
Dear Group Members, In Indian state Chhattisgarh this bug is damaging Jatropha plants. It is pest of many traditional agricultural crops. Jatropha plantations...
Dear Group Members, It is notorious pest of traditional agricultural crops. In India, Jatropha plantations are serving as breeding center for it. Farmers say...
Dear Group Members, Scutellera is polyphagus insect and you will find in fields that it likes Jatropha much. I have received messages from different parts of...
Dear Group Members, You are invited to read this Hindi article on Jatropha. http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=earticleView&earticleId=3180&page=12369 [With the...
POISONING DUE TO JATROPHA Bangalore, DHNS: The Forensic Medicine Department of Bangalore Medical College has confirmed the illness caused to 17 children from...
Jatropha farming shrinking grazing land Kalyan Singh Kothari, OneWorld South Asia 02 July 2008 A recent study on the planting of the highly praised jatropha in...
36 students fall ill after eating fruit 10 Jul 2008, 0353 hrs IST, Neel Kamal,TNN BARNALA: As many as 36 students got ill after eating "ratanjot", an ...
