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creators_name: Ogunwole, J
creators_name: Kirchhof, G
creators_name: Zemadim, B
creators_name: Duiker, S
creators_name: Pires, L F
icrisatcreators_name: Zemadim, B
affiliation: Bowen University, Nigeria
affiliation: School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bamako)
affiliation: Department of Plant Science, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
affiliation: Laboratory of Physics Applied to Soils and Environmental Sciences, Department of Physics, State University of Ponta Grossae, (Carlos Cavalcanti)
country: Nigeria
country: Australia
country: Mali
country: USA
title: Jatropha Curcas Development as Intervention Potential to Tackling Land, Energy and Food Challenges of Rural Communities in Dryland Sub-Saharan Africa
ispublished: pub
subjects: A99
subjects: F12
subjects: S40006
subjects: s2.2
subjects: s22
subjects: s26
subjects: s4004
subjects: s9
divisions: CRPS1
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: Land Use, Biofuels, Agronomy, Soil Management
abstract: Global population growth is placing increasing pressures on land for food and feed production as well as energy security. In particular in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), these issues require urgent attention. This is clearly stated in The United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development emphasizing the importance of sustainable use of land resources to increase food productivity and energy requirement. SSA lags behind most regions of the world in household food security and access to energy. The rural agriculture-dependent communities of SSA are the hardest hit by food and energy scarcity and the impact is felt most by communities in the dryland farming areas. In terms of energy supply appropriate measures and interventions are required to address this challenge. Jatropha curcas L. oil fast tracked itself from obscurity to prominence. Its main advantage is the high content of methyl ester (or bio-diesel). It conforms to EN 14214 specifications, exhibiting emission reduction potential and qualifying as a lucrative bio-diesel alternative to fossil diesel. This paper proposes a focus on Jatropha technology as a holistic approach to tackling the land, energy and food degradation challenges in unison for dry-land SSA. The new Jatropha strategy would be innovative and environmentally friendly soil resource recapitalization and supply feed stock for rural energy generation while fulfilling the criteria of delivering other benefits, such as addressing land use conflict for food and energy production.
date: 2020-01
date_type: published
publication: Proceedings
volume: 36
number: 1
pagerange: 85-85
event_title: Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019)
event_location: Brisbane, Australia
event_dates: 11–13 November 2019
event_type: conference
id_number: doi:10.3390/proceedings2019036085
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2504-3900
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036085
funders: Part of this research was supported by the Legume & Oil seeds Research Program at the Institute for  Agricultural Research Samaru Zaria (Nigeria) and partly by the AfricaRise project of ICRISAT Mali
citation:   Ogunwole, J and Kirchhof, G and Zemadim, B and Duiker, S and Pires, L F  (2020) Jatropha Curcas Development as Intervention Potential to Tackling Land, Energy and Food Challenges of Rural Communities in Dryland Sub-Saharan Africa.  In: Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019), 11–13 November 2019, Brisbane, Australia.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11423/1/proceedings-36-00085.pdf