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— Macauba Project Brazil
This triple-bottom line project aims to build the first value chain for vegetable oil production without deforestation and land use change. Planting the Macauba tree – a species native to Brazil – in an agroforestry system and processing its fruits, we create significant social, environmental and economic impact for all stakeholders, including smallholder farmers and harvest workers. The project is implemented in the Cerrado region of Brazil. It directly translates knowledge and experience from a EU-funded EUR 2.7m research project into action. The implementation on the ground is supported by the IDB. We are currently looking for co-investors. Further information: Contact details:
— "Insights into Jatropha Projects Worldwide" Academic study on Jatropha in cooperation with the Leuphana University, Lueneburg. The production of plant oils based on oil-bearing
trees such as Jatropha could provide an alternative pathway to a
more sustainable plant oil production in the future. Planting
oil-bearing trees can mitigate the effects of deforestation and allow
for a feedstock production that does not directly compete with food
production. In spite of the large potential of oil-bearing trees,
knowledge about the economics and production volumes as well as the
status of global plantations of Jatropha was limited.
Based on the insights of the global Jatropha study, INOCAS can provide additional Jatropha market analysis and information on topics such as
- Current and expected Jatropha plantation sizes worldwide If you are interested in such analysis, please fill in the form below: |
