UN's FAO: bright future for sustainable biofuels DR Congo - WHO ARE THE OWNER OF C

"According to agricultural experts, the DRC alone has the agro-ecological capacity to grow food for 2 to 3 billion people. It currently uses less than 5 per cent of its potential arable land. With investments in modern agriculture, the country could thus feed all the new people that will be born between today and 2050 (when the planet will have a population of around 9 billion). The FAO says a very large portion of this potential is highly suitable for the production of sustainable energy crops (previous post, see map, click to enlarge).

So what do the Congolese themselves think of their biofuels opportunity and the risks that go with it? They convened a roundtable, coordinated by the Réseau de Promotion de la Démocratie et des Droits Economiques et Sociaux (PRODDES), supported by the NGO 'Solidarité socialiste'. Present at the debate were experts of WWF, academics from the University of Kinshasa, policy makers of the Ministry of Agriculture and civil society organisations.

The tone at the conference about biofuels was surprisingly positive and optimistic. This can be partly explained by the country's struggle with food production and the disastrous effects of high oil prices.

Congo's hunger problem has worsened sharply because of extremely high fuel prices."

Full article: http://biopact.com/2008/06/dr-congo-debates-its-enormous-biofuels.html
and
http://biopact.com/2008/01/uns-fao-bright-future-for-sustainable.html


ONE question:
Who are the owner of crop for biofuels?

(related questions: Where would the money of investment in biofuel in Congo go?
How the income would be distributed inside the country?
how many people could find work?
how many people and in which % of generated value will benefit?)

Who will process the biofuel? (A multinational, a founded congoles industry?)
Where the added value of refinaring oil will go?
If the biofuel will be processed abroad, then how could directly lower the oil price, since it would be sold to international market to be processed and rebought by internatinal market as oil...?

Does it really look like Congo should give 80-115 million hectares to generate high value abroad, and sell out soil potentialities?
Why not doing investment to process food internally, instead of producing biofuel to get money to by fuel and food?

Still I think bioenergy is really important, but when processed according to very local governance.

(?) Are there studies about fractal supply chain? (similar to capillar and arterial system).
fractal model maybe could responde to chaos and unpredictible fluctuancy in finance and climate effect on crops, as well logistic supply chain in periferal areas.