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 ...

Agricultural scientists are in the lab looking for ways to help break Pennsylvania’s dependence on foreign oil. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons user Immersia) Scientists and entrepreneurs are teaming up to ...

KAVANGO, Namibia (AlertNet) - If it were up to Floris Smith, he would yank out all 8,600 jatropha trees on Shadi Kongoro irrigation scheme. "We started with 14,000 trees in 2005," he said. "Now almost ...

In Switzerland, a seed variety has been developed that appears to do it all: the edible Jatropha curcas seed produces vegetable oil and protein, captures CO2 from the atmosphere, and thrives on ...

THE bio-diesel plant in Mt Hampden, about 15 kilomtres northwest of Harare, could remain a white elephant after experiments showed that the jatropha plant cannot be sustainably run on a commercial ...

Renewable energy, it turns out, does grow on trees. The fruit pods plucked from jatropha trees have seeds that produce clean-burning diesel fuel. But unlike corn and other biofuel sources, the ...

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 ...

plant using traditional method in Siraha. Although production of alternative bio-fuel was started in other countries a few years ago, the central research centre of Gopal Charity Trust in Siraha has ...

MALEGAON, India (Reuters) - The glow from burning jatropha seed torches has often saved Maruti Chindu from treading on snakes, but now he carefully nurtures them for a use that he never imagined ...