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Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green' [1]

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.

Publication Date: 
15/02/2010
Andrew Wasley [2]
Ecologist [3]
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Land Use [4], Wastelands [5], Food Crops [6], Irrigation [7], Deforestation [8], Biofuel [9], Farmers [10], Energy [11], Senegal [12], Swaziland [13], Tanzania [14], United Kingdom (UK) [15], India [16], Assam [17], Meghalaya [18], Food Security [19]

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