Essays about: "EcoEnergy"

Found 4 essays containing the word EcoEnergy.

1. 1. From rice to sugar, from smallholder to businessman : a case study of outgrower schemes within the EcoEnergy Bagamoyo project, Tanzania

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Agnar Kjeller; [2016]
   Keywords : outgrower scheme; LSAI; rice; sugar cane; smallholders; cooperation; organisation; Tanzania;

   Abstract : Many governments in Africa envisage the potential to create rural employment, improve energy balances and strengthen their national economies by encouraging investment in large-scale agriculture. This trend is being intensified by global demand for alternative sources of energy and food, against a background of high oil prices and growing world population. READ MORE

3. 2. Impacts on the local population due to delays in large scale agricultural investments : a study on the case of Agro EcoEnergy Ltd in Bagamoyo, Tanzania

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Frida Kjellin; [2015]
   Keywords : large-scale agricultural investment; resettlement; delay; planning for the unknown; livelihoods; ontological security; trust and mistrust;

   Abstract : This thesis discusses the effect of delays in large-scale agricultural investment (LSAI) in resettlement on the local population when resettled. Empirical material was gathered in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, for the case of the investor Agro EcoEnergy Ltd. (‘EcoEnergy’) and its investment in sugar. READ MORE

4. 3. “Sugar cane will liberate us!” : smallholder imaginaries about a planned outgrower scheme connected to a large-scale agricultural investment in Tanzania

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Malin Ohlsson; [2015]
   Keywords : outgrower schemes; large-scale agricultural investment; Tanzania; smallholders; expectations; imaginaries;

   Abstract : Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAI) are common in today’s globalised world and frequently involve outgrower schemes. A complex situation involving land conflicts, government bureaucracy and requirements for international best practice in resettlement is causing continuing delays to a Swedish LSAI in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania. READ MORE

5. 4. A multi-scale analysis of biofuel-related land acquisitions in Tanzania : with focus on Sweden as an investor

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Emma Johansson; [2013]
   Keywords : social impacts; environmental impacts; jatropha; sugarcane; Tanzania; Sweden; biofuel; Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; Land acquisition; DPSIR; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Spurred on by pressure to find sustainable energy production alternatives to fossil fuels, many industries have been acquiring land in order to plant crops for biofuel production. In Tanzania, biofuel development is in an early stage, and over the last decade, several foreign actors have tried to start up biofuel projects in the country (without success). READ MORE