(Bio)Fueling Injustice? - Europafrica

Finally, a number of cases studies and media report also confirm that there is a growing trend
of production of biofuels in Africa for the EU market. 543 Some companies such as Jatropha
Africa are specifically focusing on growing biofuel feedstock in Africa, and have stated that they
already import to the EU. 544 The biofuel production of Addax Bioenergy in Sierra Leone will,
according to the company itself, be partly for export to European markets (see also Box 4). 545
The World Bank noted in 2011 that “recently, a surge in demand for sugar and biofuels sparked
great interest in sugarcane, either to supply protected and subsidized European markets, as in
Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, or to benefit from domestic
subsidies, as in Sudan.” 546
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