A front-page article in The Guardian on 31st May 2011 included a comment from Christopher Hunter of Viridesco:-
A community-based approach is embraced by a few investors. “Our farmers in Mozambique are given seedlings to grow jatropha on their own land with the option to sell the seeds back to us,” says Chris Hunter, of UK-based Viridesco. “We help smaller plantations that cater to the developing world markets, as opposed to big monocultures that service the developed world’s energy needs”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/31/biofuel-plantations-africa-british-firms
