Development with communities

By working together with communities that take the initiative to try to improve their situation, we seek to establish, long-term, sustainable developments.  'We aim to support rural development projects, that go well beyond the cultivation of Jatropha.

Current Projects

• - Development of Improved varieties of Jatropha.
• - Intercropping
• - Oil expelling
• - Bee keeping and honey production

Proposed Projects

• - Construction of a bridge over a river
• - Healthy cooking practices
• - Soap manufacturing
• - Press cake, and Biochar.

Projects such as these can reduce poverty and illness. Many rural villages have suffered from a lack of jobs. Many young people have drifted to the urban centres to look for work.

Sustainable Non-food Bio-oils Supply Chains

Jatropha Africa is engaged with partner organizations to spread know how about biofuel supply chains and farming techniques. We are collaborating with the University of Greenwich and other European and African research centres to deliver programmes to develop sustainable non-food biofuels. EU ACP project - Sustainable Non-food Bio-oil