Activity Group 1 and 3 - Study Tour for Capacity Building "Bioenergy Week" - Brasilia (Brazil), 18-23 March 2013
- Agenda - English; Español; Français; Português
- Conclusions
- Presentations
18 March 2013- Bioenergy in Brazil - Ricardo Dornelles (Ministry of Energy and Mines of Brazil)
- African perspective on bioenergy - John Yeboah (ECREEE)
- U.S.-Brazil Memorandum of Understanding to advance cooperation on biofuels - Emerson Coraiola Kloss (Ministry of External Relations of Brazil)
- The role of biofuels in the EU Directive on Renewable Energy - Arnold Jacques de Dixmude (EU Delegation in Brazil)
- Asian overview on the production and use of bioenergy - Maslan Lamria (Ministry of Energy and Mines of Indonesia)
- Biodiesel in Brazil: sustainability on three pillars - Daniel Amaral (ABIOVE)
- Global agricultural sustainability and how current and future ethanol technology fits in - David Vander Griend (ICM)
- New feedstock for bioenergy - Guy de Capdeville (EMBRAPA Agroenergy)
- Water footprint of bioenergy - Rita Monteiro (IEE/USP)
- The importance of sugar cane agroecological zoning - Luis Job (Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil)
- Natural resources use efficiency - Martina Otto (UNEP)
- Productive capacity of the land and ecosystems - Celso Manzatto (EMBRAPA Meio Ambiente)
- Brazilian sugarcane sector' s approach to the agro-environmental protocol - Davi Alencar Araújo (Raízen)
- International standards and certification - Emerson Kloss (Ministry of External Relations of Brazil)
- Sustainability of woody biomass production - Robert Bilby (Weyerhaeuser)
- Bioenergy carbon footprint. Implications on market development - Marcelo Moreira (ICONE)
- Biodiesel auctions and the "Social Fuel Seal" - Rodrigo Rodrigues (Biodiesel Federal Program Coordinator
Chief of Staff Ministry – Brazil) - Energy access from rural and agro-industrial residues - Suani Coelho (CENBIO/IEE University of São Paulo)
- Bioenergy-food security links and how FAO addresses them - Olivier Dubois (FAO)
- On-farm waste-to-energy for increased agricultural productivity - Gerard Ostheimer (USDA Foreign Agricultural Service)
- Sugarcane expansion and dairy farmer's responses in Brazil - André Novo (Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste)
- An overview of palm production in Brazil: the experience of Belém Brazil Bioenergy in the Amazon - Antônio Gonçalves Esmeraldo (Belém Brazil Bioenergy)
- Building farmers' income and safety nets while securing local energy supply in West Africa - Idrissa Ba (Mali Biocarburant)
- Participation of family agriculture in Brazil - André Machado (Ministry of Agrarian Development of Brazil)
- Family agriculture in biodiesel production with palm oil - Juliano Mendes (Fundação Getúlio Vargas)
- Sustainable bioenergy supply chains–The U.S. perspective - Kristen Johnson (U.S. Department of Energy)
- Family agriculture and rural development: the experience in Ghana - Eric Ofori-Nyarko (Energy Commission of Ghana)
- Family agriculture and rural development: the experience in Jamaica - Betsy Bandy and Gerald Lindo (Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining of Jamaica)
- Biofuels in Guatemala - Luis Fernando Velasquez Pottier (Ministry of Energy and Mines of Guatemala)
- Family agriculture and rural development: the experience in Vietnam - Le Hong Quang (Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam)
- Productivity in the use of biomass to bioenergy - Manoel Souza (EMBRAPA)
- Development of bioenergy in Argentina: economic aspects - Miguel Almada ( Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina)
- Creating drop-in fuel value chains - Adilson Liebsch (Amyris)
- Standards and specifications for bioenergy - Gustavo Kuster (INMETRO)
- Flexibility for biofuels use in the transportation sector - Henry Joseph (ANFAVEA)
- Brazilian experience in ethanol fuel: quality aspects and distribution logistics - Vinícius Neves Bueno (Petrobras)
- Abellon's Integrated Bioenergy Model - Tarun Rokadiya (Abellon CleanEnergy)
- R&D for advanced biofuels - Artur Yabe Milanez (Brazilian Development Bank - BNDES)
- OAS support for bioenergy projects - Ruben Contreras (OAS)
- IDB support for bioenergy projects - Marco Aurélio Lenzi Castro (IDB)
- The World Bank financing instruments - Gregor Wolf (World Bank)
- Creating a value chain to meet national needs - Stefan Mård (CleanStar Mozambique)
- Conclusions: environmental pillar - Manoel Souza (EMBRAPA)
- My take home messages on sustainable bioenergy - Olivier Dubois (FAO)
- List of participants
- Photo
ECOWAS-GBEP workshop on Bioenergy Resource Assessment and Mapping - Rome (Italy), 13-14 November 2012
- Agenda
- Conclusions
- Presentations
Session 1A and 1B: Natural Biomass Resource Assessment- 1.1 United States: Billion Ton Study Update - Bryce J. Stokes (CNJV/U.S. Department of Energy)
- 1.2 Regional Potential Assessmentof Novel Bio-energy Crops in Fifteen ECOWAS countries - Henk Joos (QUINVITA)
- 1.3 Agro-Environmental mapping of biofuels production potential in Senegal - Abdou Ndour (Enda Energie)
- 1.4 Availability of local biomass for production of electricity and heat in the Netherlands in 2020 - Wolter Elbersen (Wageningen UR Food and biobased Research)
- 1.5 Senegal case: Agro-environmental zoning and feasibility analysis - Giuliano Senatore (Getulio Vargas Foundation)
- 1.6 Go’ and ‘No-Go’ areas for biomass production in Mozambique - Floor van der Hilst (Copernicus Institute, Uthrecht University)
- 2.1 Benin
- 2.2 Cape Verde
- 2.3 Cote d'Ivoire
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinee
- Guinee Bissau
- Liberia
- Mali
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- 3.1 Monitoring Vegetative Land Cover and Water Use Using Satellite Imagery - Feng Gao (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service)
- 3.2 Biofuels and water: assessing impacts - Kevin Fingerman (GBEP Secretariat)
- 4.1 Introduction to Land Cover Mapping - Fouta Djallon Highlands case study - Ilaria Rosati (FAO Land and Water Division/Geospatial Unit)
- Woodfuel Integrated Supply/Demand Overview Mapping (WISDOM) - Rudi Drigo
- 4.3 Essential role & best practices for ground- truthing GIS data - Helen Watson (University of Kwazulu Natal)
- 5.1 Opportunities and Challenges of Bioenergy and Biodiversity - David Coates (Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, Environmental Affairs)
- 5.2 Soil Quality and Soil Carbon Assessment - Ron Follett (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service)
- 5.3 Biomass reporting for the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) - Örjan Jonsson (FAO Forestry Department)
- 5.4 Tools for National Forest Monitoring Systems in the context of REDD+ - Inge Jonckheere (FAO UN REED Team)
- 6.1 Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) - Antonio Martucci (FAO Land and Water Division)
- 6.2 Introduction to Land Cover Mapping Toolbox - Ilaria Rosati (FAO Land and Water Division/Geospatial Unit)
- 6.3 BEFS Investment Appraisal Tool - Andrea Rossi (FAO BEFS Project)
- 7.1 Renewable Energy Resource Mapping - Klas Sander (Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, The World Bank)
- List of participants
ECOWAS Regional Bioenergy Forum - Bamako (Mali), 19-22 March 2012
- Draft programme (English version, French version)
- Concept note (English version, French version)
- Regional Bioenergy Strategy Framework (English version, French version)
- Press announcement
- Forum report
- Presentations
- I.1 The use of traditional biomass in the ECOWAS Region, negative consequences & ECREEE Response (Bah F M Saho - ECREEE)
- I.2.1 ECOWAS-UNDP Regional Report (Demba Diop - UNDP)
- I.2.2 Country Assessment Reports-Senegal (Sana Faty - Ministry of Renewable Energy of Senegal)
- I.2.2 Country Assessment Reports-Ghana (Kofi Agyarko - Energy Commission Ghana)
- I.3 Critical issues in bioenergy - Exploring the opportunities, constraints and trade-offs (Thomson Sinkala - Biofuels Association of Zambia and Monga Mehlwana - UNECA)
- II.1 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Mali (Thera Aminata Fofana - Agence National de Développement des Biocarburants)
- II.2 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Ghana (Kwabena Otu-Danquah - Energy Commission Ghana)
- II.3 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Senegal (Sana Faty - Ministry of Renewable Energy of Senegal)
- II.4 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Sierra Leone
- II.6 Developing Conditions for the Commercialization of Bioenergy (Marlon Arraes J. Leal - Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil)
- III.1 Ways to address and overcome food versus fuel competition (Olivier Dubois - FAO)
- III.2 Biofuel production for increased food production in Mali (Hugo Verkuijl - Mali Biocarburant S.A.)
- IV.1 Cookstoves in West Africa (Melinda Kimble - UN Foundation)
- IV.3 Presentation on GIZ-ProCEAO Cookstoves project (Andrea Reikat - GIZ-ProCEAO)
- IV.4 Pyrolysis and bio-char for soil enrichment (Moses Mensah - KNUST, Ghana)
- V.1 Sustainable rural wood supplies and efficienct bio-charcoal production techniques in the Sahel (Hamadi Konandji - PREDAS)
- V.2 Making charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa more sustainable (Ella Lammers - Agentschap NL)
- V.3 Agricultural sources of biogas including anaerobic digestion of coffee production residues (Gerard J. Ostheimer - US Department of Agriculture)
- V.4 Biomass Energy Strategy-an initiative of GIZ and EUEI
- VI.1 Introduction to the UN Energy Decision Support Tool (DST) (Marina Otto- UNEP)
- VI.2 Showcasing the Kenyan case-the WHERE methodology for deciding the most appropriate sites for bioenergy (Bernard Muok - African Centre for Technological Studies)
- VI.3 Policies for Sustainable Bioenergy (Charles Hefner - Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
- VI.6 Defining the WHO in your country-The example from Ghana and the inter-ministerial dialogue (Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo - Ministry of Energy of Ghana)
- VII.1 The GBEP Environmental Indicators (Gerard J. Ostheimer - US Department of Agriculture)
- VII. 2 The GBEP Social Indicators (Olivier Dubois - FAO)
- VII.3 The GBEP Economic Indicators (Melinda Kimble and Sarah Fulton - UN Foundation)
- VII.4 Piloting the GBEP Sustainability Indicators in Ghana (Hamza Tanko, Ghana Renewable Energy Agency and Ralph Brieskorn - Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands)
- VIII.1 Drivers for Bioenergy Market Development-The need for adequate policy framework and mandatory codes and standard (Emerson Kloss - Minsitry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil)
- VIII.2 Successful financing for smallholders (Orphé Mézétou Adom - Biovivo sarl)
- VIII.3 Potential for the sustainable production of novel bioenergy crops in the ECOWAS region (Piet van der Linde - QUINVITA)
- VIII.4 Expansion of CleanStar cooking solution to other cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Stefan Mård - CleanStar Mozambique)
- List of participants