Workshop 2 - Namibia June 2010

Participants and some of the speakers at the Namibia workshop

Discussion between Prof Patricia Harvey and Dr Sam Nujoma, former President of Namibia	Examining pink salt waters in Namibia that could support cultivation of the microalga Dunaliella

Workshop 2 – Namibia June 2010
Local Organiser	Sam Nujoma Marine & Coastal Resources Research Centre, University of Namibia (SANUMARC)
Date	3 – 5 June 2010
Location	SANUMARC, Hentiesbay, Namibia
Title	Capacity-building in Namibia to create sustainable non-food biofuel supply chains. Scoping exercise for activities, attitudes and interests of stakeholders in biofuels and renewable CHP.
Theme of break-out sessions	Creating sustainable, non-food bio-oil supply chains in Namibia; 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?
Outputs	Training in business plan production delivered to workshop attendees Training of stakeholders in biofuels and CHP delivered to workshop attendees Two potential projects identified for progressing forward for either research or investment: Micro-algae research in terms of Dunaliella strains. This was developed into a research proposal Harvesting oil from Jatropha Hedges (Horst Heimstadt).
Speaker		Organisation	Title
Prof Patricia Harvey		University of Greenwich	Introduction to ACP Science and Technology Programme
Mr Christof Brock		Namibian Agronomics Board	National biofuel energy road map for Namibia
Dr Detlof von Oertzen		VO Consulting	Namibia's biofuel potential
Ms Heidi Currie		Environmental Law Consultant	An Overview of the Policy and Regulatory Framework Pertaining to Biofuels in Namibia
Ricky Lilami		LL Biofuels Namibia (Pty) Ltd	A Quest for Partnership.The LL Biofuel Namibia project in the Caprivi Region of Namibia
Fidelis Nyambe Mwazi		SANUMARC	Opportunities for biofuels capacity building in Namibia
John McNeil		Sitting ourne Analytical	Alternative fuels for Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
Mark Wells		People Power Africa	Agro-ecological environmental biotechnolgy systems for food and fuel sovereignty in Southern Africa
Clive Coker		Jatropha Africa	The Jatropha supply chain - gaps between supply and demand
Lameck Mwewa		Polytechnic of Namibia	Jatropha feedstrock production models and sustainability a comparison
Horst Heimstadt		Namibia Hedging Project	The economic potential of growing Jatropha curcas as live fencing (Jatropha Hedging Potential)
Bronwen Currie		Nat MIRC, MFMR	Overview of marine micro-algae in Namibia
Larry Oelermann		SANUMARC, UNAM	The Namibian mariculture industry & potential for marine micro-algae culture
Prof Patricia Harvey		Presentation by Dr Davis Lewis of the University of Adelaide)	Laboratory to commercial scale micro-algae culturing: success, failures and opportunities
Prof Patricia Harvey		(Presentation by Ami Ben-Amotz from Seambiotic Ltd)	Nutraceutical effect of the micro-algae Dunaliella bardawil
Theodor Fahrendorf		Phytolutions / Jacobs University	Exploring micro-algal potentials from biofuels to biopharmaceuticals - perspectives from an algal production company
Chris Hock		Pan African Capital Holdings	Financing bio-fuel projects: a pracical workshop
Jacques Loftus		Global Carbon Exchange Namibia	The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism and opportunities created in the Developing World

African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Science and Technology Programme
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