The Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Smallholder-Based Biofuel Investments in Zambia
High oil prices, recent commitments by industrialized countries to enhance the use of renewable energy, and efforts by developing countries to stimulate foreign investment as a pathway to development have fueled high levels of interest in the biofuel sector throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. Zam...
Main Authors: | Laura German, George C. Schoneveld, Davison Gumbo |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2011-12-01
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Series: | Ecology and Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss4/art12/ |
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