NEWS AND EVENTS

November 2007

Sustainable bioenergy in Africa: issues and possibilities. By Mersie Ejigu

"Today, the majority of the African population finds itself trapped in a vicious cycle of low energy consumption, heavy dependence on traditional biomass energy, poverty and vulnerability to climatic variation. Modern bioenergy offers unique opportunities toward a strategy for unlocking this trap and developing smallholder business potential in Africa. With its tropical climate and huge land mass, Africa's bioenergy potential is almost unlimited. Harnessing it requires, at least, a two-pronged strategy: (i) promoting smallholder production and processing schemes; and (ii) encouraging socially and environmentally-sustainable large scale investment."

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