Madagascar Biofuels Video

This video presents the Mada Biofuel Team's findings for a jatropha-based biofuel research project in southeast Madagascar. Based on our field research, we have concluded that the most responsible intervention for a biofuels project in this case will provide farmers with training on polycropping techniques to integrate jatropha curcas alongside existing crops. Villagers will receive seed presses and materials, as well as training, for pressing and using jatropha oil themselves as an indoor lighting fuel - thereby reducing or eliminating reliance on kerosene. This has potential health benefits and also reduces the associated carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. By facilitating the capacity of smallholders to produce jatropha without compromising food securing, we also hope that enough jatropha oil can be produced to offset the FCE railway's dependence on imported diesel fuel. This would reduce carbon emissions and also result in cost savings that could be used to repair the tracks and rolling stock. To help make this project self-sustaining, we are proposing to develop a new small-scale carbon credit methodology for fuel-switching for the purposes of indoor lighting.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• jatropha
• biofuels
• polycropping
• carbon credits
• FCE railway
• Madagascar
• University of Michigan

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Is Jatropha plantation is commertially successfull in Madagascar?