Oilseeds/Oils /Fats CFC/FIGOOF/26: Production of Oily Plants and Commercialisation of Natural Vegetable Oils as Fuel in Replacement of Diesel for the Public Transport in Peru and Honduras
Submitting ICB Project Executing Agency Countries Directly Benefiting Project Cost Common Fund for Commodities Counterpart Contribution
Through a Public Private Partnership approach, the project aims to promote the cultivation of alternative crops like Rape and Jatropha Curcas by smallholder farmers, to be processed and subsequently used as fuel by adapted private commuter transport vehicles in selected cities in Peru and Honduras. Baseline studies were conducted, focusing on the feasibility of alternative crops to be used after processing as fuel. Extensive applied research was undertaken regarding seed production and process-
FAO Intergovernmental Group on Oilseeds, Oils and Fats German Service for Social and Technical Co-operation (Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst), DED Peru and Honduras USD 4,343,800 USD 2,731,800 (Grant) USD 1,612,000 ing as well as vehicle/engine adaptation, resulting in preliminary models related to the feasibility of the proposed value chain for the oily seed crops. The outcome of this project, although promising, is not yet sufficiently conclusive for large scale commercial uptake. The project has, however, yielded important insights in required follow-up work, addressing in particular the need to establish financially viable production systems, which may not
necessarily be suitable in smallholder production environments as well as making processing arrangements more efficient, thus reducing costs. Technically, the project has shown that diesel oil replacement by rape/jatropha seed oils is feasible. However, the economies thereof require closer examination. The outcome of the project is summarized in a brief technical report, to which location-specific reports have been added. The reports can be accessed through the CFC website.
Sugar CFC/ISO/29: East African Sugar Development
Submitting ICB International Sugar Organization (ISO) Project Executing Agency Sugar Board of Tanzania Countries Directly Benefiting Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda Project Cost USD 4,193,104 Common Fund for Commodities USD 2,358,540 (Grant) (of which USD 1, 000,000 from the OPEC Fund for International Development - OFID) Counterpart Contribution USD 1,834,564
The Project aims at improving the productivity of cane production in the East African Community (EAC) through a five-year variety importation programme. The project has selected, imported and tested a statistically meaningful number of new cane varieties from cane industries that share similar cane growing conditions to those in the EAC. It is being supported by a clean seedcane initiative, aimed at growing and distributing treated seed cane (and new varieties as they are commercialised) to the smallholder
cane growers (outgrowers) in the region. An important objective is the acquisition and transfer of technology and international best practice to the EAC cane research staff and from there to the mill personnel (agricultural and outgrower managers and agronomists) and the outgrower community.
countries; ongoing importation of improved varieties; development of a training manual and training programme for extension and outgrowers’ officers. The project is operationally completed, and a dissemination workshop was held in Arusha (Tanzania) in October 2013.
Outputs to date include the establishment of: the East African Cane Improvement Network; establishment of regional quarantine protocols between the participating
The Project Completion Report and other relevant project documentation will be made available on the CFC Âwebsite shortly.
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