New Vision on Biofuels is Urgently Needed
… (Christian Aid’s report)Growing Pains urges governments to adopt a new vision on biofuels, seeing them as a force for rural development in poor countries, rather than a silver bullet solution to climate change.
‘Christian Aid believes that the best approach to biofuels is to grow them on a small scale and process them locally to provide energy for people in the surrounding community,’ adds (the report’s author, Eliot) Whittington. ‘This can also increase rural people’s incomes and has the potential to actually increase soil fertility and moisture retention without compromising people’s food security.’
The report includes examples of communities which are growing biofuels on a small scale to supply their own energy needs – for instance in Mali, where farmers are growing jatropha alongside millet and sorghum. READ MORE
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