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Jatropha soap

An NGO supported microenterprises (Mulondolwa Jatropha Industry pictured here) have helped create a limited market outlet for failing large-scale outgrower schemes. However, most farmers have reaped nothing from several years of investments in their jatropha fields due to failing markets or irresponsible investor behavior, Zambia.

Photo by Jeff Walker/CIFOR

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Zambia, jatropha, Center for International Forestry Research, ecosystem services, production, Miombo woodlands, livelihoods, Northern, Southern Africa, CIFOR, Mungwi, horizontal, Flickr, ZM.

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