South Africa: Rural Transport Strategy

This policy aims to improve public transport services in rural areas and to provide rural populations with roads and access lanes to facilitate inter-village/farm transport options.

Date Implemented: 2003

Status: In Force; Government Initiative

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Mexico: Programa de la Defensa de la Frontera Forestal

Part of the Programa Forestal y de Suelos 1995-2000, this policy aims at incorporating the concept of sustainability in the farming and forestry sectors.  It promotes the incorporation of marginally productive farm lands so that it can be reincorporated for forest or agroforest use in order to reduce the expansion of the farming activities in the forest zones and promote sustainability in farming and forest productive activities

Mexico: Programa para el Desarrollo de Plantaciones Forestales Comerciales (PRODEPLAN)

Promoting commercial forest plantations, granting direct incentives of up to 65% of the establishment costs and maintenance of projects of commercial forest plantations over seven years.

Date Implemented: 1997

Status: In Force; Voluntary

Targets: 875 thousand hectares of commercial forest plantation

Brazil: PROBIODIESEL - Brazilian Program of Technological Development for Biodiesel

Brazil: International Action Programme (IAP), Ethanol Green Fuel Production in Brazil

To transfer technology and know how in production, processing, distribution and use of ethanol either by itself or in mixture with gasoline, laying the foundation for international trade in green fuels.

Status: Framework Policy

Funding Information: Public/private partnerships.

References: http://www.ren21.net/iap/commitment.asp?id=35

Brazil: Biodiesel Program

Brazil: National Programme for Energy Development of States and Municipalities (PRODEEM)

The Program of Energy Development of States and Cities- PRODEEM, is an initiative that aims to take electric energy to agricultural communities using renewable resources. The government procures the necessary equipment and distributes it to the states and municipalities identified/chosen for projects. The projects focus on community development (schools, community centers, health facilities) rather than household electrification.

Brazil: National Alcohol Program (PROALCOOL) Decree no 76.593