Uganda

Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Uganda.

Events

11-13 May 2010, Maputo, Mozambique: Bioenergy Markets Africa. (Themes: Africa, specifically Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi & Madagascar, food vs. fuel, GHG reductions, jatropha, land tenure, life cycle analysis, policy, water)

23-24 March 2009, Kampala, Uganda: 4th Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Forum (Themes: technology, indoor air pollution, commercialization)

Biowaste briquettes fuel drive to save trees, 22 February 2011 by SciDev.Net: "Banana stems, maize and other crop waste will be turned into charcoal briquettes in Uganda in an effort to reduce the number of trees chopped down for cooking fires."
- "The project, funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), will train 600 farmers across the country to make briquettes using portable metal kilns that can be moved between farms, according to Maxwell Onapa, deputy executive secretary of the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST)."
- "A lack of modern and affordable fuels, such as gas, electricity and solar power, makes wood charcoal and firewood the preferred sources of domestic cooking fuel, but this is damaging the environment through deforestation and soil degradation, said Onapa."
- "Frank Muramuzi, executive director of the National Association of Professional Environmentalists, warned: 'The project may not be sustainable because if they run out of the agricultural waste to manufacture the charcoal briquette, people will go back to cutting trees.'"
- "But Jane Nalunga, a senior training officer at the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda, said that removing agricultural waste and turning it into energy will reduce soil nutrition."[1]

With better stoves, UN aims to cut risk of murder, rape for women seeking firewood, 16 December 2009 by UN News Center: "The United Nations today launched a pilot project to provide fuel-efficient stoves to some 150,000 women in Sudan and Uganda to cut the risks of murder, rape and other violence they face in gathering firewood, while at the same time protecting the environment."
- "'Women and girls should not have to risk their lives and dignity, and precious trees should not be lost, in the simple act of trying to cook food for their families,' WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said. 'The SAFE stoves launch will help protect them and the environment with practical and urgently needed solutions.'"[2]

NFC to invest up to $80 million in reforestation for energy project in Uganda, 29 January 2008, Biopact. The article claims that the project by New Forest Company will prove in part that biomass production is not just based on deforestation. In this case, they argue that lack of woody biomass in Uganda and the rest of Africa is contributing to deforestation
Uganda to get gelfuel and ethanol plant. According to Biopact, a local investor plans to set up the plant, which will make gelfuels and ethanol from cassava and sugarcane waste products.
Biofuel plantations fuel strife in Uganda. New Scientist, 19 April 2007. President Yoweri Museveni's plan to hand over a large portion of a protected forest to a sugarcane plantation has fueld controversy and political strife.

Uganda Biofuels Ltd. seeks to provide and implement some of the solutions to the Uganda's energy problems through production of biofuels.

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