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Infocus_Jatropha_May_20081.pdf - Cleantech Magazine May-2008
'..Trading Emissions recently took over majority control of Sun Biofuels, through the acquisition of minority shareholders' interests….Sun Biofuel, which has been growing jatropha in Ethiopia since 2005… is also developing projects and planting in Tanzania and Mozambique...SBF has an ongoing land purchase programme in Tanzania and Mozambique...the company is working on optimising seed and oil yields…'
Tanzania blows hot and cold over biofuels- Financial Times article 28-May-2008
'...Peter Auge, general manager of Sun Biofuels Tanzania, says the plantation will not take land out of food production. The land is not at present being farmed, containing only a few fruit and coconut trees for which he is paying compensation. He says it will provide year-round jobs tending and harvesting the plants at $3 (€1.90, £1.50) a day, relatively good pay for the area, and 5 per cent of its budget will be spent on social infrastructure such as schools...'
Biofuels can match oil production- Financial Times article 06-Nov-2007
'...Peering into the future seldom produces a clear picture. but this is not the case with bio-energy. Its long-term impacts on the global economy appears to be pretty clear, making many long-term predictions quite complelling, including the demise of the price-settng powers of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and the end of agricultural protectionism...'
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Purchase of Further Land in Mozambique Completed17 - Apr - 2008
SBF is pleased to announced that it has completed the purchase of a further two former tobacco farms in the province of Manica, Mozambique, bringing the total area under SBF management in the province to five thousand hectares...
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26 - Nov - 2007
SBF has been granted full CPI approval for its investment plans in the Republic of Mozambique...
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