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FAIRTRADE

http://www.fairtrade.net/

Global Policy
http://www.fairtrade.net/uploads/media/Web_MaD.pdf FOR DEVELOPMENT

FLO-CERT GmbH is an independent International Certification Company offering Fairtrade Certification services to clients in more than 70 countries.

As such a company we assist in the socio-economic Development of producers in the Global South and help to foster long-term relationships and good practice with traders of Certified Fairtrade products.

Our Certification provides a guarantee to consumers of Certified Fairtrade products that they are contributing to the Social-Economic Development of people through their purchases.

BEES FOR DEVELOPMENT

http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/

Beekeeping is an effective way for poor people to strengthen their livelihoods and fight poverty. Bees forDevelopment provides information to assist them. We work at the heart of an international network of people and organisations involved with apiculture in developing countries.

VERMICOMPOSTE

http://www.niir.org/books/book/zb,,74_a_0_0_a/The+Complete+Technology+Book+on+Vermiculture+and+Vermicompost/

ORGANIC FORESTRY

http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/af1/index.php

WATER UNESCO

http://www.unesco.org/water/

CLIVE RICHARDSON

From YK 2000 engaged with Development Policy, Analysis and Management related to oil seed agricultural activity in the sub tropical regions of Africa, Asia, India and various Pacific as well as Indian Ocean island states. 

2000-02:
Executed East and Central African survey of  oil seed agricultural activity.
2002-03:
Executed feasibility analysis for establishing subtropical extension of Moringa Olifera.
2003-date:
Agriculture to Industry Analysis of Energy and Value chains related to establishing Jatropha Curca Linn as as a valuable non-food energy species throughout the sub tropical regions.

Policy Intervention:
Africa, Asia, India, South America, Pacific and Indian Ocean Island states.

KILIMANJARO BIOFUELS CORPORATION





Kilimanjaro Bio Fuels has been established in 2006 to research and develop the opportunity to promote Bio Jet Fuel from Jatropha Curcas Linn as a sustainable resource. The activities include the promotion of  Jatropha Curcas Linn Centre's of Excellence and community development/extension of the plant species throughout multiple sub tropical regions (including Kilimanjaro region Tanzania) as a non-competitive fully integrated tree species that will provide plant oil for process activities.

 The economic development zone of the Kilimanjaro International Airport is the most ideal location for process and refinery technology in East Africa and an excellent example of the type of location that will be preferred at additional international locations. .

By establishing strategically placed Centers of Excellence for Jatropha Curcas Linn that guide and control the agriculture to industry activities for the production of a fully certifiable Bio Jet Fuel the Aviation industry will provide for a fully integrated opportunity to establish complimentary Climate Change, GHG mitigation, Sustainable use of resources, Improved land use for both food and fuel, repair and renewal of degraded land areas, improved utility for under-utilised land areas, Compliance with Fair-trade standards, and additional deliverables that have significant economic value at sufficient levels to promote a least cost delivery of "drop in" Bio Jet Fuel, directly into the current global Aviation networks.
  • The aviation industry global network is the only platform of activity that is developed sufficiently to afford a complete least cost agriculture to industry value chain for the delivery of a bio fuel from Jatropha Curcas Linn. Currently the opportunity to acquire sufficient feedstock for processing could only be considered along the SE Asian Economic Corridor. Malaysia and Indonesia may have harvest values at strategic locations while much of the African or Indian based agricultural activity has been established without regard for future access to market or bio refinery technology.
  •  Kilimanjaro Bio Fuels has been established to research and develop the opportunity to promote Bio Jet Fuel from Jatropha Curcas Linn as a sustainable resource. The activities include the promotion of a JCL Centre of Excellence and community development/extension of the plant species throughout the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania as a non-competitive fully integrated tree species that would provide biomass and oil for process activities. The economic development zone of the Kilimanjaro International Airport is the most ideal location for process and refinery technology in East Africa.
 While KBC was established with Jatropha Curcas Linn as the first feedstock opportunity to be investigated fully the future of Bio Jet Fuel was also considered in terms of Algae. Both the soda lakes  Magadi and Natron are considered to have excellent potential as areas with the desirable characteristics required to promote commercial Algae farming. Research has been carried out at both locations that suggests  a designed and engineered intervention could lead to considerable sustainable oil resources being produced.




  • The complete biomass refinery solution:

    MixAlco converts  biomass into a mixed alcohol fuel with the use of microorganisms, water, steam, and lime
    (Holtzapple, 2003). The anaerobic process converts the biomass to carboxylate salts.

    These salts are dried and thermally converted to ketones (e.g. acetone), which are then
    hydrogenated to produce alcohols. The ability of MixAlco is to convert any biomass source to alcohol fuel
     and
    its ability to be transported via pipeline creates an infinite number of location choices for production of alcohol fuel.




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Sustainable Bio Jet fuels

Significant strides have been made in the development and testing of alternative fuels for aviation, particularly new generation sustainable biofuels. Tests on the ground and in flight have been successful and certification of blends of these fuels with current jet fuel has accelerated as a result.

ATAG Summit delegates in April 2009  underscored the strong demand from the airline community for such fuels and set the industry a target of the end of 2009 for a set of environmental sustainability standards. These must ensure aviation biofuels do not compete for land and water with food crops.

Delegates also requested that policy makers support industry efforts to accelerate the commercialization and implementation of aviation biofuels by providing research and development to enable scaling-up of pilot projects to demonstrate commercial viability.

Delegates strongly expressed their request that the use of sustainable biofuels in commercial flights would become a reality by the time the Kyoto Protocol replacement agreement came into force in 2012 and that market viability of a significant supply of biofuel in the jet fuel mix would be a reality before 2020.

Delegates acknowledged that Jatropha Curcas Linn was the agricultural feedstock for Bio Jet Fuel that most closely met with the stringent sustainability requirements that will be applied to Bio Jet Fuel.

 


 Over the past several years a number of tropical and sub tropical locations have been identified as ideal for establishing JCL Centres of Excellence and Bio refinery technologies linked to main or secondary international airport services. Investigations have covered East and Southern Africa, West Africa, India, Se Asia, Indonesia, South America, The Caribbean and several Indian Ocean island states.