[Stoves] new report on jatropha

[B.C. Romero Orellana]

Dear all:
I recall that in one of the information that you share you mention that in
some place in Guatemala you were testing the japtopha cake. I would like to
get some samples to try in the turbococina that we are going to get.  Please
let me know to whom I should address my request or if there is no chance to
get it.  Be fine.

2011/3/24 Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at gmail.com>

> Thanks Nat
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> Glad to hear things are cooking for you too.
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> Re Japtopha:
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> “Jatropha is regarded by many as an invasive plant and has been declared a
> noxious weed in parts of Australia, FAO pointed out. South Africa has banned
> its commercial production.”
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> The politics of that decision in South Africa have nothing to do with what
> was reported above in the article. Let’s say, it was not that simple. There
> was a crop-nationalist fervour at the time which was successful in getting
> the idea that ‘all foreign plants’ should be banned. As Dr Bill Mollison (he
> of Permaculture fame) said in Mbabane to an indigenous plant advocate,
> “There is nothing you eat that is not a foreign plant.”
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> Zambia also banned it when the Durban-based company, faced with a ban at
> home and already established, looked further afield to find producers. They
> encouraged farmers in Swaziland, Zambian and Mozambique to produce it.
> Zambia banned it not for ‘any particular reason’ but simply because South
> Africa had banned it. They took the oft-heard position of claiming that the
> rich down south were ‘passing off their toxic crop growing onto the poor
> nations further north’ and ‘they weren’t even allowed to grow it in their
> own country’. That sort of thing which included quite a bit of laying the
> race card. I think after a while more sanity prevailed and that Zambia is
> now producing some.
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> It is interesting how the argument about whether or not it should be a food
> crop as well as an energy crop comes up so much. It doesn’t seem to bother
> people that trees are grown on vast acreage and can’t be eaten. Or that
> cabbages are grown on vast acreage and make a lousy fuel. It is a completely
> artificial, emotion-raising argument. Growing maize for fuel does not
> disturb the food market, but subsidies sure do! Wow. It is hard to be Green
> and politically correct these days! So many things to oppose.
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> When food goes bad (like maize) what better use of it than as a stove fuel?
> Maize is a great pelletized bio-fuel.  There is a lot of crop waste that can
> be used for fuel. It does not have to be the primary intention of the farmer
> to make fuel, but it is a good fall-back position.
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> Regards
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> Crispin
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Carolina Romero
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