Presentations invited for the 1st and 2nd workshops in South Africa and Namibia aimed at scoping for activities, attitudes and interests of stakeholders in biofuels and renewable CHP, as an exercise in capacity-building to create sustainable non-food biofuel supply chains.

Breakout sessions focussed on Energy procurement programmes: Investing in CHP schemes based on renewable biofuels. What are the barriers and how can we overcome them? Who needs to be engaged with this project? How can Europe and ACP countries engage to meet these objectives?

South Africa 28-30 Jan 2010

• Introduction to ACP Science and Technology Programme
• Bioliquid Supply Chain Management
• A CDM Perspective on Cogeneration in South Africa
• PlantBio’s initiatives in bio-fuels: exploring energy crops in South Africa
• An Overview of the Policy and Regulatory Framework Pertaining to Biofuels in South Africa
• Jatropha curcas: Assessing the potential water resource impacts of large-scale production in South Africa
• Biofuels: the role of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and associated challenges.
• Indigenous Algae: Potential factories for biodiesel production
• Public Private Partnership for science and technology in Bioenergy, discussing also the issues of food versa fuel and food security in Southern Africa
• Biofuels Feedstock Production in Africa – the Land Issue
• Agro-Ecological Environmental Biotechnology Systems for Food and Fuel Sovereignty in Southern Africa
• Anaerobic digestion - not just biogas production
• Distributed provision of energy services and the potential use of decision support systems to identify projects
• ‘The dti’s Approach to Green Jobs’

Namibia 3-5 June 2010

• Introduction to ACP Science and Technology Programme
• National biofuel energy road map for Namibia
• Namibia's biofuel potential
• An Overview of the Policy and Regulatory Framework Pertaining to Biofuels in Namibia
• A Quest for Partnership.The LL Biofuel Namibia project in the Caprivi Region of Namibia
• Opportunities for biofuels capacity building in Namibia
• Alternative fuels for Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
• Agro-ecological environmental biotechnolgy systems for food and fuel sovereignty in Southern Africa
• The Jatropha supply chain - gaps between supply and demand
• Jatropha feedstrock production models and sustainability a comparison
• The economic potential of growing Jatropha curcas as live fencing (Jatropha Hedging Potential)
• Overview of marine micro-algae in Namibia
• The Namibian mariculture industry & potential for marine micro-algae culture
• Laboratory to commercial scale micro-algae culturing:  success, failures and opportunities
• Nutraceutical effect of the micro-algae Dunaliella bardawil
• Exploring micro-algal potentials from biofuels to biopharmaceuticals - perspectives from an algal production company
• Financing bio-fuel projects:  a pracical workshop
• The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism and opportunities created in the Developing World

Ghana 7-9 October 2010

Presentations for the 1st Ghana workshop addressed the production of non-food, bio-oil supply chains for renewable energy in Ghana:  Needs, Challenges and Opportunities.
Breakout sessions built on these presentations, and addressed the themes: What’s needed to attract investment into biofuels and CHP in ACP countries in general? The needs, challenges and opportunities for Ghana: Expanding the Ghana initiative regionally.

• The ACP Science and Technology Programme
• The need to deliver electricity, heat and cooling in Africa can be met with CHP
• Supplying Food for Mankind or Fuel for CHP: Navigating a global landscape
• Supply Chain Requirements for Jatropha Success in Ghana
• Jatropha feedstock Supply Chains and Energy in Mozambique and Tanzania
• Case Study from  Ghana Jatropha:  The perfect feedstock for rural development
• Using Science and Technology as Tools to Increase Biofuels Feedstock Productivity in Ghana
• Renewable energy policy (emphasis on biofuel sources); Legislative framework; Government support.  Video (Documentary)
• Capacity needs assessment in the biofuel sector in West Africa
• Enhancing value and reducing risk for Renewable energy projects
• Biofuel technologies in Ghana: current status
• Mycorrhizal Biotehnology for production of biomass and biofuel plants
• A few notes on ACP: Water, Energy
• 3rd Generation biofuel source for energy production
• In vitro regeneration of Jatropha curcas L, -a  first step towards its genetic improvement
• The potential of microalgae for biofuel production in Ghana

South Africa 1-4 March 2011

Presentations for the 2nd workshop in South Africa developed the theme: Following the Biofuels Supply Chain

• Introduction to ACP Science and Technology Programme
• Production of biodiesel from canola in  the Eastern Cape – DTI’s experience
• Plant biomass for bioenergy – concept plans and biorefineries for Southern Africa
• Algae-to-energy systems: The concept, plans, and demonstration of sustainable renewable energy production
• Building the algae industry one country at a time
• Innovations in large scale marine micro algae cultivation, using fuel gases from fossil-fuel power plant
• Lessons from the sugarcane supply chain:  What we need to consider when configuring large industrial commodity supply chains?
• Logistics and supply chain considerations for bioenergy production
• Investment climate and criteria for green fuels in Africa
• Turning industrial biomass into bioenergy –case studies & practical implementation
• Investment climate and criteria for green fuels in Africa
• IFC Investment guidelines and agribusiness activities in Africa
• What are the requirements for obtaining Funds
• Biofuel Supply Chains
• Low Cost Low Energy Harvesting

Breakout sessions looked at:

• Land Based Sources: Feedstock analysis, CHP Processing options, Possible Markets (SWOT Analysis), Distribution Model, Revenue Management
• Aquatic Sources: Feedstock production and logistics, CHP Processing options

Ghana 2-4 April 2013

Presentations for the 2nd Ghana workshop developed the theme: Production of non-food, bio-oil supply chains for renewable energy in Ghana:  Needs, Challenges and Opportunities.

• ACP Biofuel Capacity building in Africa
• Biofuels from Non-Edible Sources – Research Activities at KNUST
• Biofuel Case Studies in Ghana – Dead or Alive
• On the production of non-food, bio-oil supply chains for renewable energy in Ghana;  needs, challenges and opportunities
• Investment potentials in Biofuel sector in Ghana:  Areas of concern
• Biofuel production versus food security
• Algae as a potential source of bio-fuel in Ghana
• Unmasking the realities of investment in agrofuels
• Placing ACP correctly in the bio-oil supply chain (as contributors of technology and innovation, not just as feedstock producers)
• Accra Polytechnic Bio-fuel Project – Integrated Bio Energy Plant
• Biofuel as Renewable energy in Ghana - Innovations

Breakout sessions looked at opportunities and innovations for biofuel as a renewable energy option.

Namibia 29-30th April 2013

Presentations for the 2nd Namibia workshop developed the theme: Towards establishing value chains for bio-energy in Namibia.

• Introduction to ACP Science and Technology Programme
• Emerging industrial production of EPA microalgae biomass around the world
• Biofuel in Namibia
• Marine Algal systems
• Integrated Algae Pond Systems for Waste Water Treatment and Beneficiation
• Waste to Bioenergy ACP Case Study Biogas
• ACP Case Study:  Dunaliella
• Role that SANMARC can play
• Solid Biomass Value Chains
• Micro-algal Bio-refineries
• Wastewater treatment using microalgae:  A promising environmental biotechnology
• Waste Water and energy

The workshop included 3 training sessions and a Breakout session covering 

• Profitability and Sustainability of Bioenergy
• Algae-based waste water treatment systems
• Dunaliella - Adding value to the supply chain