Ethanol's African Landgrab
Mozambique has survived colonialism and civil war. But can it survive the ethanol industry?
ProCana is just the first in a long line of massive biofuel projects backed by investors ranging from local speculators to multinational corporations like BP. Some have asked the government—which legally owns all land here—for entire districts (the equivalent of US counties). Government officials told me that as of 2007, biofuel investors had applied for rights to use about 12 million acres, nearly one-seventh the country's 89 million acres of arable ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
