ERIC Number: EJ897842
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Sep
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0973-4082
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Using "EC-Assess" to Assess a Small Biofuels Project in Honduras
Ngassa, Franklin Chamda
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, v4 n2 p287-296 Sep 2010
Biofuels may contribute to both rural economic development and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Gota Verde Project in Yoro, Honduras, attempts to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of small-scale biofuel production for local use by implementing a distinctive approach to feedstock production that encourages small farm sizes, mixed cropping of biofuel feedstock from Jatropha and food crops, particularly corn and beans, grown side by side on the same farmland and the total involvement of small rural farmers. But is the project sustainable? Using EC-Assess, the Earth Charter ethics-based assessment tool, to assess the sustainability of this project, the author found that in some assessment categories the actions surpassed the intended objectives, showing that the project was achieving certain Earth Charter goals without specifically stating its intention to address them. (Contains 3 images, 3 figures and 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Rural Economics, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Rural Development, Ethics, Rural Education, Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), International Cooperation, Agricultural Occupations, Fuels, Questionnaires, Peace
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Honduras
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