Zambia - Oakland Institute

AGROFUEL DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY IN ITS
INFANCY
Recent agricultural investments in Zambia have
focused on sugar and jatropha for agrofuels. Zambia
has, at present, little ability to refine these crops to
meet domestic energy shortfalls. The conversion of
land from food to agrofuel production for export is of
serious concern for the food security of Zambians.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
There are numerous environmental impacts from
large-scale agricultural activities in Zambia including
increased deforestation, biodiversity loss, damage to
wildlife and fish (populations and habitat), increased
pollution and numerous impacts to water. Some
of these impacts could be minimized with proper
leadership from government but many of the impacts
are unavoidable and need to be balanced against the
perceived benefits from investment.
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