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'''Sustainability in Action'''  
'''Sustainability in Action'''  


Gota Verde is a biofuel project with a difference.
Gota Verde is a biofuel project with a difference.  


- Its products cannot be found in the ports of Rotterdam and Miami, but in the irrigation pumps, tractors, agro-industrial equipment and vehicles used locally in Yoro.  
- Its products cannot be found in the ports of Rotterdam and Miami, but in the irrigation pumps, tractors, agro-industrial equipment and vehicles used locally in Yoro.  
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- The owners of the processing enterprise are no anonymous overseas shareholders, but the very local farmers that cultivate their lands.
- The owners of the processing enterprise are no anonymous overseas shareholders, but the very local farmers that cultivate their lands.
(Statement taken from the Gota Verde webpage http://www.gotaverde.org (5).
"Project Components"
1. Coordination- The Project brought together a wide range of highly skilled individuals to ensure that all models and technologies demonstrated the highest possible quality while meeting the needs of BYSA and future co-beneficiaries. (see Figure B for hierarchical layout of all organizations involved. 
2. Business Development
3. Agriculture Development
4. Processing.
5. Adaptation of diesel engines.
6. Divulgation of Information.





Revision as of 06:20, 4 April 2013

Background

Gota Verde (Green Drop or Drop of Green), is a three year initiative based biofuel project that is located in Yoro, Honduras. This project focuses on demonstrating that biofuel creation on a small scale for local uses can be economically and technically feasible (1). The project is funded by a variety of Hondurean National, regional, and European oraganizations, with overall coordination of the first phase of Gota Verde (2007-2009) being managed by the Social Trade Organisation (STRO) http://www.socialtrade.org from the Netherlands (2).

The need for a project like Gota Verde stems from the fact that Honduras has not had a single petroleum refinery within the country since 1993 (3). According to the current project coordination organization, the Foundation for Rural Enterprise Development (FUNDER) website, http://www.funder.hn, "Honduras is a country that does not produce oil, and depends 100% on the imports of non-renewable energy. In 2006, these imports represented 16.7 millions of barrels, equivalent to 701.4 millions of gallons (42 gallons per barrel)" (4). In rural areas like Yoro in North, Central Honduras (see Figure A), this can mean very high prices fuel prices for gasoline and deisel. In fact by 2008, Honduras spent 67% of their export earnings on importing refined petroleum in order to maintain normal operations. Gota Verde and the company that has been established


(Figure A- Map of Yoro)

Sustainability in Action

Gota Verde is a biofuel project with a difference.

- Its products cannot be found in the ports of Rotterdam and Miami, but in the irrigation pumps, tractors, agro-industrial equipment and vehicles used locally in Yoro.

- Its feedstock does not come from monoculture plantations of several hundreds of hectares of monocultures, but from hundreds of small plantations and live fences, managed by small and medium-sized farmers and their families.

- The owners of the processing enterprise are no anonymous overseas shareholders, but the very local farmers that cultivate their lands.

(Statement taken from the Gota Verde webpage http://www.gotaverde.org (5).

"Project Components"

1. Coordination- The Project brought together a wide range of highly skilled individuals to ensure that all models and technologies demonstrated the highest possible quality while meeting the needs of BYSA and future co-beneficiaries. (see Figure B for hierarchical layout of all organizations involved. 2. Business Development 3. Agriculture Development 4. Processing. 5. Adaptation of diesel engines. 6. Divulgation of Information.




Economic and Social Independence


Media Role in Gota Verde


What's New


ANTH 329 Media and International Social Change

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