Sustainable biomass projects

Currently, NL Agency funds 41 projects to gain experiences in the production and certification of sustainable biomass. It sticks out that many projects use residual flows from agriculture, and relatively new crops such as jatropha and sweet sorghum. A significant number of projects try to apply the testing framework for sustainable biomass and different certification standards. At the same time many projects aim for increasing the income of small farmers and therefore for decreasing poverty. Actual win-win projects. Examples are:

• Macro-algae as a biofuel feedstock
• Jatropha plantations in Macha, Zambia
• Towards sustainability certification of Jatropha biofuels in Mozambique
• A search for the best sweet sorghum
• Large palm oil company works together with small farmers
• Sustainable production of biofuel in Mali
• Sugarcane-ethanol: sustainable additive to petrol
• Biogas from residual waste in South Africa

An overview of all biomass projects is available in PDF.

Futher reading
Report to enable those involved in the soy discussion to get a better understanding of all relevant aspects of the various voluntary soy standards in the market.