Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'

UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different.

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Publication Date: 
15/02/2010
Andrew Wasley
Ecologist
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Land Use, Wastelands, Food Crops, Irrigation, Deforestation, Biofuel, Farmers, Energy, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, United Kingdom (UK), India, Assam, Meghalaya, Food Security