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Call it the jatropha bubble. When word got out several years ago about the promise of a small subtropical tree called jatropha, it became a biofuel sensation. Advocates claimed the fruit tree was ...

Two of Africa’s poorest countries, Burkina Faso and Mozambique, are taking the lead as producers of the newly popular biofuel plant jatropha curcas – the seeds of which can be milled to produce an oil ...

People thought the hardy Jatropha tree was the answer to the food vs. fuel debate, until it wasn't. Financial hard times and a misunderstanding... How A Biofuel Dream Called Jatropha Came Crashing ...

Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

Kenya has embraced a hardy bush called jatropha curcas as the heart of a nascent biofuel industry. Proponents predict a future in which jatropha oil will power commercial jets and cars. But in Kenya, ...

In the world of biofuels, the pattern is familiar: Concerns grow over one crop’s impacts or overhyped potential, and another then appears to take its place with promises of planet-saving prowess. The ...

Unless you’re a pharmacist, names like gout plant, physic nut and bellyache bush are unlikely to evoke much interest. But these and additional species of Jatropha – other than the popular peregrina – ...

Jatropha – Jatropha integerrima, commonly called peregrina, spicy jatropha, or fire-cracker plant. Native to Cuba, Jatropha is a tropical for us, but in its native range it is a large shrub. It has an ...

My friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma’s commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending ...

People thought the hardy Jatropha tree was the answer to the food vs. fuel debate, until it wasn't. Financial hard times and a misunderstanding... From Congress to The Colbert Report, people are ...