ERA-ARD: Bioenergy - an opportunity or threat to the rural poor
Abstract
To promote sustainable production of biofuels while ensuring food security, sustainable livelihoods and rural development.General Objective To evaluate the potential of integrating biofuels raw material production in smallholder farms and their implication on energy access, ecological sustainability, food security, economic and social wellbeing in Kenya. Specific Objectives 1. To establish a theoretical and empirical background for biofuel (biogas and biodiesel) production and use in Kenya in terms of production, technical potentials and preconditions for a successful implementation of biofuels in smallholder farms. 2. To model the biofuel integration at smallholder farming systems in three key agro-ecological regions in Kenya. 3. To estimate the impact of biogas and biodiesel production in smallholder farms on their production systems, household income generation, natural resource management and food and feed production. 4. To identify the trade-offs of biogas and biodiesel production in a community and regional contexts, the potential of socio-cultural acceptance and market demand. 5. To investigate and assess the overall implications of biofuel integration in smallholder farms on rural and national policies. Integration of stakeholder knowledge, mutual learning processes between researchers and stakeholders, and the final dissemination of results and findings is a cross cutting topic of the research process.
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Project staff
Bernhard Freyer
Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Ing. Bernhard Freyer
bernhard.freyer@boku.ac.at
BOKU Project Leader
31.12.2008 - 31.12.2012