Ghana

Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Ghana.

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Why Ghana is attracting investments in biofuels, 31 January 2009 by Ghana Business News: "Ghana has become a major centre of attraction for the cultivation of biofuels in Africa for a number of reasons," including agricultural productivity, political stability and labor costs.
- "Currently, the country features prominently on the radar of alternative energy interests, especially in the cultivation of the non-food plant jatropha for the production of biofuels."
- "[C]ompanies from Brazil, Italy, Norway, Israel, China, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and India" have invested in projects in "the Volta, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Eastern and the Northern regions of Ghana," mainly for jatropha.
- "While its supporters argue that [jatropha] can be grown on semi-arid land and so poses less of a threat to food output than other biofuel feedstocks such as grains and vegetable oils, its opponents argue that investors are taking away productive agriculture land from poor local farmers for the purpose."
- "Currently, there is an ongoing debate, accusations and counter-accusations of land grabbing between NGOs, Action Aid and FoodSPAN on one hand and Rural Consult, a consultancy firm on biofuels on the other."[1]

Jatropha project in Ghana: How to Restore Vegetation and Ecosystems Along Major Man-made Lakes and Ways to Raise Finance - Presentation by Mr. Onua Amoah (CEO, Anuanom Industrial Bio Products Ltd, Ghana), UNCTAD Conference.

Anuanom Industrial Bio Products Ltd. - Develops jatropha plantations and biodiesel plants.

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