EEP Projects

The Gaia Carbon Sciences Partnership is busy with a project for the Energy and Environment Partnership Programme with Southern and Eastern Africa [EEP S&EA] entitled: “Regional Agricultural Development: Biomass and Food Crop Cultivation for Electricity Generation, Biochar Production and Food Security” in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania.  The EEP S&EA is funded by the Governments of Finland,United Kingdom and Austria and hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa [DBSA]. The project entails the selection of regions in the countries which, after a process of information gathering will be subjected to a systems thinking based methodology with a number of outcomes:

• The potential impact of additional electricity/energy generated from biomass on socioeconomic development in a region will be highlighted.
• The increased and sustainable cultivation and use of biomass crops and their impact on socioeconomic development in a region will be highlighted.
• The increased and sustainable cultivation and use of food crops and their impact on socioeconomic development in a region will be highlighted.
• Practices to enhance soil health and fertility with concomitant increase in productivity, benefitting biomass and food crop production in a region, will be emphasized.
• The increase generation of electricity/energy in energy-poor regions and its impact on socioeconomic development in a region will be emphasized.
• The combined impact of these interventions on food security in each region will be qualified and quantified.
• The combined impact of these interventions on socioeconomic resilience in each region will be qualified and quantified.
• Feasibility studies for the regions will be produced which could be turned into bankable documents for presentation to potential funders and investors to provide the capital for the necessary interventions.
• The regional projects, when considered together, will comprise a development model which could be replicated in other regions in Eastern and Southern Africa and also the African Continent.

About us

 The Gaia Partnership is made up of the following members:

• Gaia Carbon Sciences (Pty) Ltd [Lead Member] at www.gaiacarbonsciences.com
• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – CSIR – Natural Resources and the Environment at www.csir.co.za/nre/
• MBB Consulting Engineers at www.mbb.co.za
• Bam d’Afrique - BDA at www.bda.hk
• Village Corps at www.villagecorps.com

 
The EEP S&EA Web-Site is www.eepafrica.org