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Speaker Profile: Dr. Andreas Renner, Director, The Global Exchange …

I noticed that this website also have a white paper on Jatropha but you’ll have to exchange your email to get it.

By suann

Advocated originally as a first-best option for sustainable development, biofuels today are perceived by many as a major threat to food security, just to mention one key issue. The argument that Jatropha may have a positive “food footprint” due to rehabilitation of unused land and the frequent use of intercropping is not part of the current debate. The same applies to other potential benefits of tree-born energy crops of the semi-arid tropics.

http://www.futureenergyevents.com/jatropha/2008/09/14/speaker-profile-dr-andreas-renner-director-the-global-exchange-for-social-investment/

Synergistic cropping of summer groundnut with Jatropha curcas – A …
girth and branches/plant of Jatropha were high in. intercropped Jatropha (Table 2). Thus, the summer. groundnut had a synergistic effect on Jatropha. …