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Update: LEAD International Management Team
Message from Roland Kupers, Chair of the LEAD International Board of Trustees 2012 will see the completion of LEAD's transformation into...
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Celebrating 20 years of LEAD
LEAD was established by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1992 to inspire a new generation of global sustainability leaders. In the...
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Fellows News - Q4 2011
Dr Stanislav Shmelev (Cohort 12) has edited a book on sustainability that is due to be published at the end...
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LEAD Pakistan: training for Cohorts 16 and 17
LEAD Pakistan's Cohort 16 training programme has focussed on the Green Economy. The aim of this programme is to initiate...
Action
In collaboration with other entrepreneurs, Adeolu Odusote, a mechanical engineer with a passion for the environment, has devised a scheme to establish whether ethanol (an energy alternative to the petroleum products from fossil fuel) can reduce Nigeria’s dependence on crude oil. Together with colleagues, Adeolu is involved in growing and processing large cassava farmlands yielding ethanol. But these are no ordinary farms: the plantations are carefully developed so not to compete with food production while sustainable management practices ensure that ecosystems, communities’ living spaces and water supply are all secured. A 10,000 hectare farm is presently being developed as a pilot effort. This farm is in Ekiti State, in the country’s south western region.





