AFRICA
1. ANGOLA, 30,000 hectares by Eurico Ferreira of PORTUGAL:
In 2008, Portuguese dealing Eurico Ferreira's renewable energy inferior, Proef, announced that it was pursuing a USD 200 million, 30,000 ha sugarcane project in the Zaire Area of northern Angola.
2. CAMEROON, 200,000 hectares by Biopalm Spirit of INDIA:
Biopalm Spirit is a inferior of Singapore-based Siva Portion, owned by Indian billionaire C. Sivasankaran. The interest is excessively seeking 80,000 ha in Sierra Leone and other lands in Ghana, Argentina, C^ote d'Ivoire and DR Congo to do palm oil for carry out to India. In February 2011, Biopalm acquired a 50 percent let somebody in on in the Liberian operations of Equatorial Palm Oil, which has 169,000 ha of burden in the rural.
3. CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE, 70,000 hectares by ENI of ITALY:
ENI is a outrageous Italian energy interest main part owned by the Italian Handing out. In 2009, ENI signed an MoU later the Handing out of the Republic of the Congo for an oil-palm plantation project, personal as Food Create Biodiesel, in the Niari spot, in the north-west of the Congo.
4. CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE, 44,000 hectares by FRI-EL Breezy of ITALY:
In July 2008, Reuters reported that FRI-EL Breezy Lushness, an Italian interest half-owned by German energy outrageous RWE, had purchased Congolese public sector companies Sangha Palm and Congo Federal Palm Plantations Credence, say it view of 4,000 ha of oil-palm plantations, and signed an bond later the Handing out of the Congo to pact oil-palm plantations on an do without 40,000 ha manager 30 days.
5. DR CONGO, 100,000 hectares by ZTE Spirit of CHINA:
ZTE Press down is China's biggest telecommunications interest, later operations in boss than 140 countries. In 2007, it align ZTE Spirit to invest in biofuels and yield production in China doll and irrelevant. In 2008, ZTE purchased 258 ha in Menkao, nearby Kinshasa, to comply with the vigor for agriculture five degrees north and south of the equator, and plus purchased a 600 ha farm in 2010. It has a 100,000 ha markdown for an oil-palm plantation from the Handing out of the DRC, but it has put this project on soubriquet.
6. ETHIOPIA, 56,000 hectares by Acazis AG of GERMANY:
Former Plants Ecopower Holding, which was a side-effect of the Israeli Hovev Portion, Acazis is now majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based renewable energy the general public Athanor Equities, and trades on the Frankfurt Orthodox Make contact with. As a result of the anesthetize of edible-oil prices by the Ethiopian management in 2011, Acazis shifted production from castor to peanuts to do peanut oil.
7. ETHIOPIA, 50,000 hectares by Shapoorji Pallonji and Co. (S&P Co.) of INDIA:
In Parade 2011, India's S & P Co. signed an bond later the Handing out of Ethiopia to do yield crops and pongamia fruit for agrofuels on 50,000 ha in the Benishangul-Gumuz Subdivision.
8. GHANA, 3,940 hectares by Bionic Palm Restricted of GERMANY:
Bionic Proliferate Portion is an business interest that develops and builds artificial fuel reactors and turnkey production plant life. In 2008, it align Bionic Palm Restricted (BPL) in Ghana to invest in agricultural production. In Ghana, the interest acquired a palm oil toil and 1,750 ha on a 50 engagement grab for oil palm plantations. The interest says that it has complete planning for several 2,190 ha, and intends to win its scrupulous oil palm plantations to 10,000 ha.
9. LIBERIA, 169,000 hectares by Equatorial Palm Oil of the Linked KINGDOM:
EPO has three concessions among Buchanan and Greenville, totaling 169,000 ha. In February 2011, the company's Liberian palm oil plantations and coffers were built-in concerning a 50-50 join project later Biopalm Spirit, a Singaporean interest hovering by Indian billionaire C. Sivasankaran, which has only acquired other large-scale palm oil concessions in Cameroon and Sierra Leone.
10. MALI, 2,605 hectares by Agro-'energie D'eveloppement of FRANCE:
Agro-'energie D'eveloppement (AgroEd) is a interest set up to invest in vertically built-in biofuels and yield production in wet behind the ears countries. It is 51 percent owned by France's LMBO Cash, later France's initially Minister of Defence Charles Million as a expert. The company's acquisitions of farmland in West Africa are expected to be specially for jatropha, such as its November 2007 concession later Burkina Faso for 200,000 ha and its concession later Advertise for 30,000 ha in the Office du Niger.
11. MOZAMBIQUE, 24,000 hectares by Tata Chemicals of INDIA:
In July 2011, Bloomberg reported that Obtain Spirit, a inferior of India's Tata Chemicals, would invest USD 320 million to pact an ethanol plow and sugar woven plantations on 24,000 ha in Mozambique.
12. MOZAMBIQUE, 10,000 hectares by MedEnergy of ITALY:
MedEnergy General is a UK-based holding interest owned by Italy's Belleli heredity, which complete its opulence in the energy put up. MedEnergy is pursuing a 10,000 ha oil-palm plantation project in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Area.
13. NIGERIA, 11,292 hectares by FRI-EL Breezy of ITALY:
In 2009, FRI-EL Breezy, an Italian interest half-owned by German energy outrageous RWE, purchased an 11,000-ha oil-palm plantation in Abia People in southern Nigeria, later job to refurbish the markdown to up to 100,000 ha.
14. SIERRA LEONE, 80,000 hectares by Biopalm Spirit of INDIA:
Biopalm Spirit is a inferior of Singapore-based Siva Portion, owned by Indian billionaire C. Sivasankaran. The interest is excessively seeking 80,000 ha in Sierra Leone and other lands in Ghana, Argentina, C^ote d'Ivoire and DR Congo to do palm oil for carry out to India. In February 2011, Biopalm acquired a 50 percent let somebody in on in the Liberian operations of Equatorial Palm Oil, which has a landbank of 169,000 ha in the rural.
Source: Enerzine.com
15. SIERRA LEONE, 15,500 hectares by Addax Bioenergy of SWITZERLAND:
Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone Ltd is a inferior of Addax & Oryx, a Swiss-based energy affiliation. In 2010, the interest acquired consistent grab job to manager 15,000 ha of burden in Bombali Divide into four parts, Northern Area, Sierra Leone, anywhere it intends to set up sugar-cane plantations, specially for the production of ethanol for European markets. Finer partially of the headquarters in the project has been provided by development banks, including the European Money Supply, Swedfund and the African Neurosis Supply.
16. SWAZILAND, 15,000 hectares by Proliferate Ethanol and Rural Plantation of SOUTH AFRICA:
In January 2012, Swaziland's Minister of Crop growing Moderate Dlamini announced that the South African interest Proliferate Ethanol and Rural Plantation would pact a sweet-sorghum plantation to do ethanol. The project momentum be align behind the Siphofanen/Lavumisa portico.
ASIA
17. INDONESIA, 100,000 hectares by Minerals Spirit Trade in Holding of the UAE:
Minerals Spirit Trade in Holding (MEC) is a 50-50 join project among the Ras Al Khaimah Money Credence of the UAE and the UAE-based mining interest Trimex. In February 2010, it was reported that the interest was planning a 100,000 ha agricultural project in the East Kalimantan spot of Indonesia.
18. LAOS, 50,000 hectares by ZTE Spirit of CHINA:
In October 2010, Asian Look after reported that ZTE had reached an bond later Laotian powers that be for 50,000 ha to do cassava, and that it was looking for up to 100,000 ha agilely four southern provinces.
19. PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 33,000 hectares by Changhee Built-up of SOUTH KOREA:
Changhae is a Korean producer of monster feeds and biofuels. In 2005, the interest signed an bond later the Handing out of PNG for a USD 26 million cassava-based ethanol project. Honest two subsidiaries in PNG, Changhae Tapioka Ltd and Cassava Etagon Holdings Ltd, Changhae acquired two concessions sleeve 33,000 ha in scrupulous in Internal Area and New Ireland Area to do cassava. PNG correspondents reported that Changhea would invest USD 6 million in the development of its cassava plantations.
20. PHILIPPINES, 11,000 hectares by Breezy Development Push aside of JAPAN:
Breezy Development Innovations is a join project sugarcane and ethanol project among Itochu Corp. and JGC Corp. of Japan, Bioethanol and Spirit Investments Corp. of the Philippines and GCO of Taiwan. The project includes the development of an 11,000 ha sugarcane plantation in the authority of Isabela.
21. PHILIPPINES, 5,000 hectares by San Carlos Bio-Energy of the Linked KINGDOM:
In 2003, Bronzeoak Ltd align Bronzeoak Philippines in council house later Zabaleta & Co. of the Philippines to pact sugar-cane-based energy projects in the Philippines. Bigger only, the Swiss-German ThomasLloyd Portion and FE Slops Spirit of New York keep in check amalgamated the interest. In 2006, later financing from China doll Supply, Bronzeoak Philippines opened an ethanol plow on Negros Coral reef that momentum be full up by a 5,000 ha sugarcane plantation that the interest is excessively wet behind the ears in the pause.
EUROPE
22. UKRAINE, 11,600 hectares by Sustainable Bio Spirit Holding GmbH of GERMANY:
Sustainable Bio Spirit Holding GmbH is majority-owned by two German disorder constructiveness companies, Stadtwerke Uelzen (37.5%) and Stadtwerke Schw"abisch Group (37.5%). It steering wheel 11,600 ha of farmland in Ukraine.
LATIN AMERICA
23. BRAZIL, 30,000 hectares by Slops Spirit Brazil of the Linked KINGDOM:
Slops Spirit Brazil is an headquarters interest based in the UK and registered in the Cayman Islands that was launched in 2006 by London monetary rule Numis and Mexican sugar trader Czarnikow, later manager USD100 million in deep method to invest in Brazilian sugar-cane production and management. Honest the grasp of various Brazilian sugar-cane companies, it has acquired and leased lands for sugar-cane plantations that, gone put concerning production, momentum first boss than 30,000 ha.
See GRAIN's website to download the get dataset and to learn express the organization's instigate. And see this previous post at biomass-energy.org for other biomass energy investments in the wet behind the ears world.
