Lumads: militarization is number one problem Sunday, 01 March 2009 10:03 Mora narrated the expansion of plantations of jatropha aside from pineapple and...
Dear Group Members, I have recently completed this short film. I am visiting to different Indian states for more films specially in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh,...
Biofuel Gone Bad: Burma's Atrophying Jatropha By TIME Staff Friday, Mar. 13, 2009 My friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in...
NGOs raise red flag over biofuel industry in Ghana Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are raising concerns about the biofuel industry in Ghana, warning...
Ghana: Women Lose Their Farms to Biofuel Production Ama Achiaa Amankwah 16 March 2009 Accra â€" Ghanaian small scale farmers, particularly women, are facing...
Burmese Jatropha Planting Is Wasting Valuable Land The advantage of using jatropha curcas to create biodiesel fuel is that the plant can grow almost anywhere....
[Moderator's comment: Read the changed statement of "Dangerous One". After fooling Indians now they are saying that it is not a miracle crop and requires...
Zambia's opposition condemns reported Chinese biofuels project Lusaka - Zambia's main opposition leader Michael Sata has strongly opposed a reported request by...
Africa Will Have to Feed EU’s Artificial Biofuels Demand Hilaire Avril PARIS, Apr 19 (IPS) - Earlier in the decade, biofuels were hailed as the energy...
Biofuel plant species can turn aggressive, researchers warn By Helen Altonn Biofuel crops being promoted and planted as a "green" renewable solution to energy...
Biofuel-yielding plant being promoted without check Sunday, April 26, 2009 By By Saad Hasan KARACHI: Faced by a severe energy crisis, Pakistani authorities in...
Zimbabwe: Council to Probe Joint Venture Projects It has also come to light that a joint venture between council and the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe to...
Medicinal and Aromatic plants marketing group- Marketingmaap is active again. http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/marketingmaap/ To join this group, send request...
Hailed as a miracle biofuel, jatropha falls short of hype The scrubby jatropha tree has been touted as a wonder biofuel with unlimited potential. But questions...
Biofuel crops `can invade tropical ecosystems` Source: SciDev.net May 7, 2009 Biofuel crops are more likely than other plants to become invasive in tropical...
Jatropha: Biofuel Wonder Plant Fails to Deliver Written by Kay Sexton Published on May 7th, 2009 Back in 2004/2005 a lot of publicity was given to Jatropha...
Feel-good biofuel not all it's cracked up to be? Questions arising about jatropha tree Earlier this year, Time magazine ran a story on Florida entrepreneur...
Gwynne Dyer: Neocolonialists' African land grab By Gwynne Dyer In the past two years, various nonAfrican countries--China, India, South Korea, Britain and the...
Jatropha seeds yield little hope for India’s oil dream Richard Orange Back in 2005, Professor RR Shah sent a team to Navsari Agricultural University’s most...
Dear Group Members, While passing through roadside Jatropha plantation in Chhattisgarh, India, I observed fire. Jatropha plants were burning and no one was...
Dear Group Members, Jatropha planted near biodiversity rich Sal (Shorea robusta) forest are now entering in forest and creating problems for flora and fauna. ...
Dear Group Members, The authorities are fooling the investors from Ghana to US by showing false images of Jatropha plantation of Sunderkera village as model...
Research Shows Jatropha Not 'Wasteland' Biofuel Crop According to Indian government researchers, Jatropha plants will grow on wasteland, but in order to retain...
Update: Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure? Would a jatropha crisis hit the world just as the current global economic crisis hit most...
Dear Group Members, Jatropha promoters in Ghana are adopting same old tactics for Jatropha promotion as once they used to "fool" Indians specially natives of...
Dear Group Members, Jatropha poisoning has taken five lives in India and affected thousands of children. Children are still coming to hospitals. Before...
