| Country | Organisation | Description | Time | ||
| Burkina Faso | Ferme pilot de Guié | The Jatropha activities were started with seeds from Mali (Projet Pourghère) Photos | 1995 | ||
| Belize | Janus Foundation Belize |
Jatropha activities since 1997, the aim is a plantation of 25 ha, using the oil mainly as fuel. | 1997 | ||
| Cape Verde | GTZ | The first Jatropha project integrated the Jatropha plant into the reforestation program of a regional development project. Its aim was to produce local fuel to run Elsbett generator sets and Elsbett vehicles. It ended 1988. | 1984-1988 | ||
| India | KfW/AFF/NGOs | Within the frame of a big watershed development project, financed by the German development bank KfW, Jatropha was integrated into the reforestation activities. The Agro Forestry Federation took over Jatropha activities and is lounching their proper projects now. | |||
| Malawi | EDETA USAID WSU |
The MAFE-project (Malawi Agroforestry Extension) operates under a cooperative agreement between the Government of Malawi, USAID and the Washington State University to promote Jatropha curcas and Moringa oleifera. | - 2002 | ||
| Mali | Folkecenter Mali |
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since 2001 | ||
| Mali | GTZ | In 1987 Jatropha activities started in Mali within the frame
of the Special Energy Program (SEP) of the German Ministry of Cooperation (BMZ). After the
end of the SEP in 1990 the German Ministry agreed to finance a Jatropha project, which has
been executet between 1993 and 1997. e-mail to the former head of the project |
1987-1997 | ||
| Mali | UNDP | UNDP/IFAD finances since 1993 a project in Burkina Faso and
Mali, which aimes to lighten the burden of the rural women. The project
finances multifunctional enery platforms,  "plateformes
multi-fonctionnelles" which enable the village people to lighten the village, to pump
water and to run a flower mill with jatropha oil as fuel. See
website for more information! |
since 1993 | ||
| Mali |
Folkecenter Denmark |
The Folkecenter for
renewable energies, Denmark, opened a branch of its organization in Bamako, Mali. One
of the maim topics of the center is the exploitation of the Jatropha plant in the south
and center of the country. The director is Mr. Ibrahim Togola Folkecenter
Mali |
since sept. 1999 | ||
| Mexico | University of Hohenheim |
A post graduate student from the Hohenheim University, Mrs. Birgit Schmook-Laigh, is working in Mexico on a Jatropha Gene Bank. The interest lies specially on the non toxic varieties of Jatropha curcas, which is eaten, after roasting, by the population. | since 1993 | ||
| Namibia | Farm Volkmann | 1994 Jatropha seeds from Mali were sawn and the plants frost protected. Photos | |||
| Nepal | FAKT |
FAKT, the cooperation organisation of the German protestant
church, finances the introduction fuel production aut of Jatropha seeds, sice Jatropha
hedges pla a big role in fencing the fields and gardens against browsing animals. e-mail to the project initiators |
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| Nicaragua | Sucher & Holzer |
The Austrian Agency for Cooperation finances a big project
in Nicaragua to produce plant oil methyl ester as fuel in an industrial scale. More than
1.000 ha of Jatropha plantations have been already planted. website of the biomass project
Sucher & Holzer, the responsable consulting firm. |
since 1990 | ||
| Sénégal | ATI |
ATI initiated a smal Jatropha project in Senegal, near
Thiès, were women collect the seeds of Jatropha hedges to produce oil with the Bielenberg
Ram Press. This oil will be used as fuel for their flower mills or as a raw material for
soap production.
to the Director of the project, Mme N'diaye
N'déo NIANE
to the initiator Carl Bielenberg |
since 1996 | ||
| Sri Lanka | Alternative Income for women in the south of Sri Lanka | since 2003 | |||
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Sudan |
DED | In Northern Darfur Province, in the KAEDS / IFSP project Kutum of the German Development Service, Jatropha activities have started in 2001. For more information click here. | since 2001 | ||
| Tanzania | ARI-MONDULI | Jatropha Project: Alternative Resources Income for Monduli Women | |||
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| Tunisia | private consulting | A consulting imported 250 kg of Jatropha seeds to Tunisia in the beginning of 1998 to start an industrial Jatropha plantation. No results are known. | 1998 | ||
| Zambia | GTZ-Project |
Excursion of a group of farmers from the southern province
(Lake Kariba region) to the BUN-project in Zimbabwe, organised by GTZ-Zambia. This
excursion led to some activities of hedhge planting and soap production by farmers and
women groups, so that the project decided to invite a consultant to support the
improvement of the Jatropha activities as an income generating activity. Head of this
section is Dirk Hässelbach: |
1998/99 | ||
| Zambia | White Rose Farm |
The owner of the White Rose Farm in Zambia planted 2 ha of Jatropha in order to sell the oil to Body Shop. Until now no commercial buyer of seeds or oil appeared. | since 1996 | ||
| Zimbabwe | BUN |
With the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation BUN-Zimbabwe
started a project to exploit the existing Jatropha plants in the communal areas in the
north-eastern part of the country. It consists of a local available expeller to produce
Jatropha oil, which is used by the village women to produce soap, which is sold on the
local market. e-mail to the project |
since 1996 | ||
| Zimbabwe | POPA |
The Plant Oil Producers Association is a group of farmers
interested in exploiting the Jatropha plant in an industrial scale. Up to now they are not
convinced of the economic viability of that approach, since the diesel price in Zimbabwe
is very low. Popa is trying to introduce the local production of the Sundhara expeller and
to find som high priced utilisations for the Jatropha oil, like drilling oil, oil for
tanneries, soap production, production of insecticides. e-mail to POPA |
since 1993 | ||
| Zimbabwe | Ambassy of Holland |
The Ambassy of the Netherlands in Zimbabwe financed a small project at the border of Lake Kariba "Binga Trees Project" to utilise the oil of the existing potential of Jatropha plants for lighting and soap making. The project developed a very simple oil lamp for lighting. The oil is extracted with a local fabricated ram press. e-mail to the project | since 1996 | ||
| Zimbabwe | private entreprenuer |
An entreprenuer from Bulawayo, Mr. Donald Chakras, is promoting oil seeds and buying Jatropha seeds all over the country, even from the other side of Lake Kariba. The price for the seeds is about 1,5 Zimbabwe Dollars. |
