Jatropha has a good potential but only in the poorer parts of the world like India, Africa and maybe Mexico, places where a peasant can be given a plot of land, given a number of plants and he is responsable for growing and tending the plants to their first fruiting. He is then able to harvest the fruits of his own labour and earn an income for himself, his family and his village.

The big corporates who are planting millions of acres are going to be paying labourers slave labour rates to work all day harvesting the fruits.

Palm oil is destroying the rain forests of Indonesia and Malaysia whilst Indian labourers are being abused for the sake of cheap labour - all in the name of biodiesel.

I guess what I am trying to say is that there is a movement to place embargoes on palm oi because of its ecological profile and I believe Jatropha may face similar action because of it's social profile.

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