Zubiri: Negros to be Biofuels Center
THE PHILIPPINES - Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri Saturday called on oil firms to moderate their greed amid the impending increase in oil prices to P60 a liter, as he stressed his plan to...

China to Curb Bioenergy Development
CHINA - Agriculture Minister has declared that China is to strictly control bioenergy development and oil crop shortage on the 21st of April during talks with Eva Kjer Hansen, Danish...

Zambian Farmers Encouraged to Plant Jatropha and Moringa
ZAMBIA - Development specialists in Zambia are encouraging farmers to plant trees – the Jatropha and Moringa - to help with their nutritional and even fuel needs, writes Sanday Chongo...

NZ Farmers Generate Energy from Biogas
NEW ZEALAND - According to Radio New Zealand, with the increase in fuel and power prices, farmers are thinking up new ways of tapping into their own energy sources.

Filipino Firm Looks for Biofuel Lands in Central Mindanao
SULTAN KUDARAT - The Philippines' Eastern Renewables Fuels Corp. is looking for more lands in Central Mindanao to cultivate cassava for biofuel use.

Special report: Climate change and food prices
GLOBAL - Is the climate to blame for the deadly combination of soaring prices and decline in supply - two factors threatening food security?

High Plains Bioenergy Celebrates Grand Opening
US - High Plains Bioenergy will celebrate the grand opening of its new biodiesel production plant on 24 April.

NZ Biodiesel Industry Looks to Canterbury Oilseed Rape
NEW ZEALAND - Biodiesel New Zealand is committed to producing 70 million litres a year of sustainable transport fuel by the year 2011 and is calling for the Government to encourage...

S.W. Florida: New Biodiesel Crop Jatropha Taking Off
US - The roots for a new energy crop in Southwest Florida have been planted.

India to set up National Biofuel Development Board
MUMBAI, INDIA - The union government is planning to set up a National Biofuel Development Board, it said on Tuesday.

Biofuels Production Holds Promise
US - According to a Biofuels expert the Michigan states economy could be revived by producing energy plants such as switchgrass.

Philippine Province Promotes Malunggay, Moringa Oil
PROVINCE OF SIQUIJOR, PHILIPPINES - According to the Philippine Information Agency, Provincial Agriculturist Dr. Ramon A. Taroc has made an appeal to the local folk to propagate Malunggay,...

Invention could milk coconuts for fuel
ONTARIO, CANADA - Are green-energy petrol-alternatives the renewable saviour gas guzzlers need?