The future of bioenergy and rural development policies in Africa and Asia

Amézaga, Jaime M.; Bird, David Neil; Hazelton, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.10.001

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“…Hence, this would require local capacity and a very specific and comprehensive analysis at local level; ■ within the bioenergy arena there is the tendency of a "flavor of the year" which has passed from Jatropha to palm oil to algae to wood, and which has led to rush "to develop new resources and prove new technologies often without the necessary forethought and policies in place". This issue has been analyzed by Amezaga et al [80] who have also underlined that despite bioenergy production may play a pivotal role in rural development of several African and Asian countries, many countries "still lack institutional structures able to articulate this development".…”

Section: Distributed Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Off-grid systems for rural electrification in developing countries: Definitions, classification and a comprehensive literature review

Mandelli

Barbieri

Mereu

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Section: Distributed Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Off-grid systems for rural electrification in developing countries: Definitions, classification and a comprehensive literature review

Mandelli

Barbieri

Mereu

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

326

169

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“…Due to many of these challenges, bioenergy is not always considered as a viable off-grid solution for electrification in developing countries [34]. However, pilot projects across the developing world are receiving coverage by researchers and development organizations to more carefully assess the role bioenergy can play in meeting electrification goals in developing regions [35][36][37][38][39]. There has been much less scholarly attention to bioenergy development in developed countries, including Canada and the US.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Harvesting Local Energy: A Case Study of Community-Led Bioenergy Development in Galena, Alaska

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Community-led bioenergy projects show great promise to address a range of issues for remote and Indigenous Arctic communities that typically rely on diesel for meeting their energy demands. However, there is very little research devoted to better understanding what makes individual projects successful. In this study, we analyze the case of the Galena Bioenergy Project (Alaska)—a biomass heating project that uses locally sourced woody biomass to help meet the heating demands of a large educational campus. Using project documents and other publicly available reports, we evaluate the project’s success using three indicators: operational, environmental, and community level socio-economic benefits. We find that the project shows signs of success in all three respects. It has a reliable fuel supply chain for operations, makes contributions towards greenhouse gas reductions by replacing diesel and has improved energy and economic security for the community. We also examine enabling factors behind the project’s success and identify the following factors as crucial: community-level input and support, state level financial support, access to forest biomass with no competing use, predictable demand and committed leadership. Our findings have important implications for other remote communities across the Boreal zone—especially those with nearby forest resources. Our examination of this case study ultimately highlights potential pathways for long-term success and, more specifically, shows how biomass resources might be best utilized through community-led initiatives to sustainably support energy security in Arctic communities.

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“…The proportion of the urban population of the world rose from 33% in 1960 to 54% in 2016 [2]. This growth is particularly pronounced in Asia and Africa, and has been followed by worldwide rural depression [3]. The rural recession is produced by factors such as the large number of young and strong laborers flowing to cities from rural areas, economic recession, low agricultural efficiency, a widening urban-rural gap, etc.…”

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Rural Revitalization and Land Institution Reform: Achievement, Conflict and Potential Risk

Zhihan

Chai

et al. 2022

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Rural depression is a global issue in the process of worldwide urbanization. Compared with rural economic institution reform, rural land institution reform is more thorough in realizing rural revitalization. In this paper, polycentric governance theory is used to introduce marketization reform of collective profit-oriented land (MRCPL). MRCPL aims to allow rural collective profit-oriented construction land to be sold and leased with the same rights and at the same price as state-owned construction land. In the process of MRCPL, we suppose that the key subject is the central government, and the multiple auxiliary subjects include local governments, markets, villagers, and village collectives. Herein, Deqing County was selected as the research area and its achievements, conflicts, and potential risks in the process of MRCPL were studied. This study found that in Deqing County, a unified urban–rural construction land market has been preliminarily established, the rural revenue allocation mechanism has been updated, and the rural land finance mechanism has been developed. However, MRCPL may have conflicts with existing land requisition institutions and land banking institutions, and may also have conflicts within different subjects (farmers, village collective, local government, and central government). These conflicts may lead to potential risks, such as rent-seeking risk, land-financing risk, and real-estate-bubble risk. In general, the MRCPL aims to allow rural collective profit-oriented construction land to be sold and leased with the same rights and at the same prices as state-owned construction land. This reform can protect farmers’ land rights and promote the construction of urban and rural integration.

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The future of bioenergy and rural development policies in Africa and Asia

Abstract: 8This special issue has presented some of the specific findings of the RE-Impact Project which was 9 commissioned and funded by the EuropeAid Cooperation Office from 2007 until its conclusion in

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Off-grid systems for rural electrification in developing countries: Definitions, classification and a comprehensive literature review

Off-grid systems for rural electrification in developing countries: Definitions, classification and a comprehensive literature review

Harvesting Local Energy: A Case Study of Community-Led Bioenergy Development in Galena, Alaska

Rural Revitalization and Land Institution Reform: Achievement, Conflict and Potential Risk

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