8217b243-b9fe-4803-a591-b33b4e4e3790 Daniel Paco ECREEE dpaco@ecreee.org 2018-03-22T12:44:39 WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) Biocrops Temperature Suitability 2012-09-30T08:00:00 Data provides information about novel potential bio-energy crops which can or could be grown and processed in the future in the 15 ECOWAS countries. The project “Regional potential assessment of novel bio energy crops in fifteen ECOWAS countries” was started by the different project partners (ECREEE, UNIDO and QUINVITA) based on the need to make an overall assessment of a series of novel potential bio energy crops which can or could be grown and processed in the future in the 15 ECOWAS countries. This project fits in a broader strategic analysis of alternative energy needs and production, the key mandate of the mainfunding partner in the project, ECREEE. The project partners deliberately excluded conventional “bio energy” crops like sugarcane, oil palm, maize or sunflower as target crops, since they believed a sufficient knowledge base on the growing and processing crops was available globally and in the region. The novel bio energy crops chosen as targets for the study are a selection of crops for which either the agricultural knowledge is still limited and/or the use of the crop as an energy source is relatively new. The project team realizes that the list of selected crops is not an exhaustive list of potential bio energy crops and other novel crops may have a potential in the region. The project will develop a methodology that can be followed in the future for analyzing the potential of other crops and does not want to exclude this analysis in the future. The crops that have been selected for analysis in this project are: False Flax (Camelina sativa), Crambe (Crambe abyssinica), Cassava (Manihot esculenta), Castor bean (Ricinus communis), Cashew (Anacardium occidentale), Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), Jatropha curcas and sweet sorghum (sweet version of Sorghum bicolor). Jafaru AbdulRahman ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) jabdulrahman@ecreee.org http://www.ecowrex.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng//resources.get?uuid=8217b243-b9fe-4803-a591-b33b4e4e3790&fname=suitability_temperature.PNG large_thumbnail PNG Biocrops West Africa ECOWAS Camelina, Cashew, Cassava, Casor, Crambe, Ground nut, Sweet sorghum Biomass resource Bioenergy Agriculture The dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are allowed to: • Share : to copy, distribute and transmit the work • Remix : to adapt the work Under the following conditions: • Attribution – You must attribute the work giving reference to the original source. • Share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. 20000000 farming 2009-12-30 2010-12-29 -25.36 15.91 4.3 25 Camelina sativa, Anacardium occidentale, Manihot esculenta, Ricinus communis, Crambe abyssinica, Arachis hypogaea and Sorghum bicolor climate suitability map based on the mean temperature wettest quarter data for the ECOWAS region OGC:OWS-C http://www.ecowrex.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=8217b243-b9fe-4803-a591-b33b4e4e3790&fname=Biocrop assesment_study report_EN_Final.pdf&access=public WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Biocrop assesment_study report_EN_Final.pdf Final Report of the study: Regional Potential Assessment of Novel Bio-energy Crops in Fifteen ECOWAS countries. It includes methodology, maps, general information, specific conclusions and recommendations by country and crop, economical information, etc. http://www.ecowrex.org/mapView/?mclayers=layerCamelinaT%2ClayerCashewT%2ClayerCassavaT%2ClayerCastorT%2ClayerCrambleT%2ClayerNutT%2ClayerJatrophaPA%2ClayerSorghumT WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link http://www.ecowrex.org/mapView/?mclayers=layerCamelinaT%2ClayerCashewT%2ClayerCassavaT%2ClayerCastorT%2ClayerCrambleT%2ClayerNutT%2ClayerJatrophaPA%2ClayerSorghumT http://www.ecowrex.org/geoserver/ecreee/wms? OGC:WMS ecreee_T ecreee_ecreee_Temperature