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Developing ambitious reform programs is easy. The challenge is paying for them
Deep in the arid mountains of southwest China, a native plant is giving hope to 1.3 million peasant farmers. Farmers in Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, more than 45% of whom belong to ethnic minorities, are being urged to grow the Jatropha Curcas L tree. They then develop its seeds into bio-diesel to meet local energy demands and provide a source of revenue.
In turn, those farmers are pointing the way to a development pathway perched between China's ambitious development ...
In turn, those farmers are pointing the way to a development pathway perched between China's ambitious development ...
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