Biodiesel
News
Brazil Taps Small Farmers For Biofuels Campaign
With its biofuels business increasingly dominated by giant corporations, Brazil is seeking to extend its biofuels sector to include farmers like Lucas Scariot, who makes around $10,000 per year from selling grain.
For the past three years, Scariot has sold soy beans at a premium over market prices to a biofuels
25/08/2010
Planet Ark (Australia)
News
Butter holds secret to latest biodiesel fuel
KENNETH CHANG
BUTTER IS not the fuel of the future, but it is possible to churn perfectly good diesel fuel out of it.
“It was something we wanted to show could be done,” said Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the United States Department of Agriculture.
11/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
News
Railways to go green with four bio-diesel plants
Praveen Kumar Singh
New Delhi: Indian Railways has planned to set up four bio-diesel plants to reduce its carbon footprint and take forward its experiment with non-conventional form of energy. It is already planting saplings of jatropha, one of the sources of bio-diesel, on pilot basis in partnership with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
10/08/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Jatropha: A smallholder bioenergy crop
Mass planting of jatropha as a biofuel crop could benefit poor
areas as well as combating global warming, but only if a number of
scientific and production issues are properly addressed, a review has
warned.
Aug 2010
FAO
News
Rlys looks at bio-fuel to cut costs
After CNG, the Indian Railways now wants to tap bio-diesel potential to cut down on its operational cost. The Ministry has decided to set up an integrated bio-diesel plant at Chennai. The plant will have a production capacity of 30 tonnes per day.
05/07/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Biofuels at what cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the European Union
Biofuels—both ethanol and biodiesel—benefit from high levels of financial support in almost all European Union Member States. This report aims at quantifying all support measures provided in the European Union. It is one of several studies undertaken for or by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) examining subsidies and support measures in various countries.
Jul 2010
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Reports and Documents
OECD-FAO agricultural outlook 2010-2019: highlights
This report by OECD and FAO presents a consistent view on the evolution of global agricultural markets over the next decade and provides a baseline for further analysis of alternative economic or policy assumptions. Says that world food prices will rise this decade, boosted by a growing population and changing diets.
Jun 2010
OECD
News
GM prefers India for biodiesel research
‘No plan to phase out vehicles running on conventional fuels'.
It is difficult to say when alternative fuels like ethanol and jatropha biodiesel will be commercially available on a wider scale –
Virendra Pandit
19/05/2010
Business Line (New Delhi)
Feature Articles
Effect of genotype and auxin treatments on rooting response in stem cuttings of CPTs of Pongamia pinnata, a potential biodiesel
Mature stem cuttings of 10 candidate plus trees (CPTs) of Pongamia pinnata were subjected to auxin application to compare their adventitious rooting ability. Significant differences were observed for sprouting
May 2010
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