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+<br>Kenyans fear Dakatcha Woodlands [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) growth<br>
+<br>23 March 2011<br>
+<br>By Will Ross<br>
+<br>BBC News, Dakatcha<br>
+<br>Sitting in the shade of a tree beside his thatched mud hut in in Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands, Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe is bold.<br>
+<br>"We are not going to let this land go even if it indicates shedding blood," he told the BBC.<br>
+<br>"Land is really essential to us. We farm and get our income from it. On this land we bury our dead."<br>
+<br>He is one of the many people opposed to the production of a big [biofuel](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) plantation in the location, about an hour's drive inland from the seaside town of Malindi.<br>
+<br>It is an arid area and home to some 20,000 people along with internationally threatened animal and bird types.<br>
+<br>Ambitious goals<br>
+<br>An Italian company has actually asked the [authorities](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) for approval to lease 50,000 hectares there to grow [jatropha curcas](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb), whose seeds are abundant in oil that can be turned into bio-diesel.<br>
+<br>This plant, initially from South America, has long been grown in Africa as a hedge to stay out animals - goats remain well away as it is toxic. The area impacted is community land which is being held in trust by the [local council](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US).<br>
+<br>Kenya [Jatropha](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) Energy Ltd is 100%-owned by the Milan-based Nuove Iniziative Industriali SRL.<br>
+<br>It has leased almost a million hectares in Africa