rpose of cultivating and processing jatropha, the emissions ratio actually increased.
Bailis and Baka also found that some farmers struggled due to poor resources.
"A second important finding is that early jatropha projects suffered from a lack of developed seed strains, which led to poor crop yields," the report said.
The results pointing to the importance of careful choice of land and seed may seem obvious. But this is one of the first studies conducted in Latin America that uses hard data and interviews, as opposed to estimates and computer modeling, and applies it to the sustainability criteria developed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, according to Boeing.