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This page provides information on biofuels and bioenergy in Africa, including details on specific countries.
- Africa has a huge potential for bioenergy, but also faces some of the greatest challenges for sustainability. Bioenergy and biofuels can pose both solutions and challenges to problems of poverty, deforestation, desertification, biodiversity loss and other issues.
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Africa-wide activities
- ProBEC - Programme for Biomass Energy Conservation in Southern Africa - ProBEC, implemented by the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) since 1998, works in several SADC countries (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe) to promote "Integrated approaches to Biomass Energy Conservation (BEC)" to "offer ways to tackle fuel shortages, reduce the burden of fuel collection and preparation, and reduce exposure to indoor air pollution.[1]
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Sub-regions / Countries
Click the country names to see pages about specific countries. (Blue links indicate pages that exist in the wiki; red links indicate pages that do not exist yet.)
- Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe
- East Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
- North Africa: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
- Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
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Regional activities
- ProBEC - Programme for Biomass Energy Conservation in Southern Africa - ProBEC, implemented by the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) since 1998, works in several SADC countries (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe) to promote "Integrated approaches to Biomass Energy Conservation (BEC)" to "offer ways to tackle fuel shortages, reduce the burden of fuel collection and preparation, and reduce exposure to indoor air pollution.[2]
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News from Africa
Also see news and specific country pages.
- Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground, 5 September 2008 by Spiegel Online: "Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world's biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with promises. But is this just another form of economic colonialism?"
- "Africa offers oil [plant] farmers virtually ideal conditions for their purposes: underused land in many places, low land prices, ownership that is often unclear and, most of all, regimes capable of being influenced."[3]
- Nigeria’s First Bio-fuel Refinery to Create 406,000 Jobs, 24 March 2008 by This Day Online: Nigeria's first biofuel refinery is to create 406,000 jobs and benefit seven states. Carbon credits for the project create an additional incentive. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is reportedly involved in the project.
- Brazilian president calls on Africa to join biofuels revolution. According to Biopact, the president called for Africa to ensure its energy independence and economic growth through taking advantage of the biofuels market."
- Biofuel plantations fuel strife in Uganda, 19 April 2007 from Newscientist.com. Plans to turn over 25% of one of Uganda's last preserved forest to a sugarcane company have sparked riots resulting in several deaths.
- Biofuel - Experts in Zambia call for caution, 1 March 2007 from the Times of Zambia. While Zambia has ambitious plans to increase biofuel production to replace petroleum, experts are calling for more research on jatropha and other introduced energy crops before wide-scale planting is done.
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Publications
See books, reports, scientific papers, position papers and websites for additional useful resources.
- Brazil - UK - Africa: Partnership on Bioethanol Scoping Study - British Government, Dept. of Trade and Industry: , s.d. July 2006.
- Turning Food Into Fuel: GM Drought Tolerant Soybean And Its Use In The Production Of Biodiesel African Centre for Biosafety, 10 November 2006.
- Position on the Use of Agrofuels in Africa (PDF file) from The Conservation, Policy, Education and Science Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology, Africa section. "The purpose of this position paper is to explore the means of sustaining both humans and wildlife while producing agro-fuels as an alternative energy source in sub-Saharan Africa."
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Information sources
| Africa | edit | |
| Central Africa: Cameroon | Central African Republic | Congo | Democratic Republic of Congo | Equatorial Guinea | Gabon | Sao Tome and Principe | East Africa: Burundi | Comoros | Djibouti | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Kenya | Malawi | Rwanda, Seychelles | Somalia | Sudan | Tanzania | Uganda | North Africa: Algeria | Chad | Egypt | Libya | Mauritania | Morocco | Tunisia | Southern Africa: Angola | Botswana | Lesotho | Madagascar | Mauritius | Mozambique | Namibia | South Africa | Swaziland | Zambia | Zimbabwe | West Africa: Benin | Burkina Faso | Cape Verde | Cote D'Ivoire | The Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Liberia | Mali | Niger | Nigeria | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Togo | ||
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