Environment

Biofuels in Africa - Opportunities, Prospects, and Challenges
Authors
Donald Mitchell
Publisher
World Bank
Publication date
Anonymous (not verified) 12 Apr, 2012 12:53
Location
http://tinyurl.com/7bkbeah

Biofuels offer an opportunity to African countries to produce new cash crops for domestic use or export. High energy prices and large consumption mandates already agreed in many countries suggest that these opportunities will remain for an extended period of time. The impacts of expanded production of crops for biofuels will be felt in the entire rural sector as resources are shifted away from traditional crops and prices of all agricultural commodities rise.