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1. Article about jatropha for biodiesel in India
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1. Article about jatropha for biodiesel in India
Posted by: "almuthbernstinguk" almuth@ernsting.wanadoo.co.uk almuthbernstinguk
Date: Mon Oct 6, 2008 4:34 am ((PDT))
You can find a longer article by Souparna Lahiri:
"Colonizing the Commons: It is jatropha now!" here
www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/mausam_colonizingthecommons_itsjatrophano
w.pdf
The article was published in the first edition of a new Indian
climate change magazine, 'Mausam'
(http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/Mausam_July-
Sept2008.pdf)
It primarily looks at jatropha in Chhattisgargh, and describes the
land grab of forests, pasture and other community lands. Two quotes
from the article:
"Today, 50 m off the road to Sunderkera, jatropha saplings with
visibly stunted growth behind barbed wires indicate that something
has gone wrong somewhere. Chhattisgarh government's dream of becoming
the first bio-diesel selfsufficient state in India has perhaps
failed."
"According to Ratneshwar Nath of Paribartan, an NGO working among the
tribals of Kanker and Bastar districts, at least 355 families of 27
villages were affected and displaced by the forcible planting of
jatropha on their lands. `More than 1700 acres of land cultivated by
the tribals for generations have been taken away from them for
planting jatropha,' Ratneshwar said. `Forest officials and the
administration across four forest divisions in Kanker and Bastar are
terrorizing the villagers for the past six/seven months,' he added."
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