{"id":446,"date":"2011-01-28T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2011\/01\/jatropha-money-doesnt-grow-on-trees.html"},"modified":"2011-01-28T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:00:30","slug":"jatropha-money-doesnt-grow-on-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/01\/jatropha-money-doesnt-grow-on-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons Why Jatropha is Neither a Profitable nor a Sustainable Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li> <a style=\"float: right;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330147e210e94e970b-pi\"><img class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330147e210e94e970b\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Jatropha_curcas\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330147e210e94e970b-320wi\" alt=\"Jatropha_curcas\" \/><\/a> Jatropha does not guarantee high returns<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha does not thrive on marginal land<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha needs significant amounts of water<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha is not pest resistant<\/li>\n<li>Many jatropha investment projects have failed<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha competes with food production<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha causes displacement of local communities<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha plantations are not pro-poor<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha plantations negatively impact biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Jatropha is likely to increase carbon emissions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foei.org\/en\/resources\/publications\/pdfs\/2011\/jatropha-money-doesnt-grow-on-trees\" target=\"_blank\">Jatropha: money doesn&#8217;t grow on trees<\/a> (.pdf), a report by Friends of the Earth. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energybulletin.net\/stories\/2011-01-24\/biofuels-setbacks-rulings-incentives-gm\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Bulletin<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/05\/miracle-biofuels.html\" target=\"_self\">Previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jatropha does not guarantee high returns Jatropha does not thrive on marginal land Jatropha needs significant amounts of water Jatropha is not pest resistant Many jatropha investment projects have failed Jatropha competes with food production Jatropha causes displacement of local communities Jatropha plantations are not pro-poor Jatropha plantations negatively impact biodiversity Jatropha is likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}