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Green grabs and rural development: How sustainable is biofuel production in post-war Sierra Leone?

机译：绿色抢夺和农村发展：战后塞拉利昂的生物燃料生产如何是多么可持续的？

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Sub-Saharan Africa, now dubbed the 'Green OPEC' of the global bioenergy economy, biofuels have been hailed as a 'new profitability frontier' that will provide 'win-win' outcomes and deliver development to poor communities. Yet, in an era of economic recession and soaring food prices, their 'sustainability' has been at the centre of controversy. This paper focuses on the case of Sierra Leone, where in 2008, a Swiss bioenergy company ushered in the largest foreign direct investment since the end of the country's civil war. Although recently set back by the catastrophic impacts of the Ebola crisis, there continues to be much support for the government's strategy to secure foreign direct investment in biofuels production in agriculturally rich regions of the country. Bioenergy proponents believe that such investments will transform rural areas, in light of the fact that Sierra Leone has over the last decade been consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world, facing food insecurity, high unemployment and entrenched poverty. But land access and control remain central to debates around biofuels and development, particularly for poor rural people living in project areas. This paper explores the perceptions of a wide range of project stakeholders, many of whom have differing interpretations of what biofuel sustainability entails. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications this may have for the present post-Ebola environment, where evolving policy discussions on land investment and 'green' development continue to assume a key part of the government's recovery trajectory. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
机译：撒哈拉以南非洲，现在被称为全球生物能源经济的“绿色欧佩克”，生物燃料被誉为“新的盈利性边疆”，将为贫困社区提供“双赢”的成果和发展发展。然而，在经济衰退和食品价格飙升的时代，他们的“可持续发展”一直处于争议的中心。本文重点介绍了塞拉利昂的情况，2008年，瑞士生物能源公司以来，瑞士生物能源公司以来迎来了全国内战结束以来最大的外国直接投资。虽然最近被埃博拉危机的灾难性影响恢复，但继续支持政府对国家在国家农业富裕地区生产外商直接投资的战略。生物能源的支持者认为，这种投资将转变农村地区，鉴于塞拉利昂在过去十年中始终被排名为世界上最贫困，面临粮食不安全，高失业和根深蒂固的贫困。但土地访问和控制仍然是生物燃料和发展的辩论，特别是对于生活在项目区域的贫困农村人口。本文探讨了对广泛项目利益相关者的看法，其中许多人对生物燃料可持续性有所不同的解释。本文通过反映了对目前埃博拉纳环境的影响，在现有政策讨论和“绿色”发展的情况下，这一文件的结论是，继续承担政府恢复轨迹的关键部分。 （c）2017 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。

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