Brazil in Africa: South-South cooperation on bioenergy speeding up

Earlier this month, diplomats of 18 African embassies gathered in the Brazilian capital Brasilia, to attend the announcement of the objectives of the organization’s new office in Africa. Its aims are to promote South-South exchanges of expertise and technology transfers from Brazil to Africa, in order to speed up the transition towards bioenergy and biofuels in the developing world. African countries have a vast untapped sustainable bioenergy potential, and Brazil thinks that investing in it offers a powerful set of tools for economic development and poverty alleviation, for the fight against social inequality and for the revitalisation of rural communities.

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