Using EC-Assess to Assess a Small Biofuels Project in Honduras

Franklin Chamda Ngassa
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Franklin Chamda Ngassa: Environmental Security and Peace Masters Program at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. Email: ngassafrank@yahoo.co.uk

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2010, vol. 4, issue 2, 287-296

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: EC-Assess; biofuel sustainability; Yoro; Honduras; Earth Charter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/097340821000400218

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