Malawi: More Ethanol Could Lighten Malawi's Fuel Bill

Johannesburg — As fuel prices climb in Malawi, amid fuel shortages and a soaring inflation rate - prompted by a 50 percent devaluation of the currency - a new paper suggests a way to decrease the country's reliance on imported fuel: biofuels.

Malawi is "the only African country that has consistently used liquid biofuels for transport for an extended period - since 1982", points out the paper, which was jointly authored by economist Charles Jumbe, of the Centre for Agricultural Research and Development in Malawi, and Francis Johnson, a senior researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

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