AFRICABIZ VOL 2 - ISSUE: 113
January 15 - April 14, 2009
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A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Dear visitor and international investor,

We warmly welcome you, if this is your first visit to Africabiz Online - The ultimate newsletter on trading and investing in 49 sub-Saharan African countries. If you are a regular and faithful reader, welcome back.

- THE NEED FOR A SURVIVAL STRATEGY

The evolving financial crisis is raging in spite of the effort deployed by the U.S.A. and European countries to stop the "rot" and rekindle the system. Banks had been bailed out of bankruptcy and wholly or partially nationalized in the States and in European Union countries, which governments, over night, did not hesitated to cast over board the concept of free trade and globalization that they had imposed upon developing nations for decades running. Following links [1, 2] dealt with that aspect of the financial crisis.

African banks and other developing countries banks in Asia and the Americas, seem, for time being "quarantined" from the debacle, as they do not use sophisticated financial tools to operate, and had not indulge in the subprime "follies".

However, sooner or later, more sooner than anticipated in most African nations, the coming credit crunch will deal a blow to the developing as, doubtless, bilateral government to government financial aids and assistance from Europe and the USA to Africa would decrease in volume. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for African countries to have a survival strategy in order to continue the developing process.

Click here to read about: "The Financial Crisis: An Opportunity To Develop Intra-African Trade and Break Free

- VIP MEMBERSHIP IS RUNNING LIVE

The VIP Members section is now running live. More on the matter is available at following link that is the permanent announcement page concerning VIP-Membership. Visiting said page, you will always take notice of what is showing live on the confidential newsletter - Inside Africa & Insights About Africa - dedicated to VIP Members.

- SERVICES AND PRODUCTS FROM Dr. QUENUM & ASSOCIATES / BUSINESSAFRICA (TM)

List of Products and Solutions to trading and investing in and out emerging nations - and particularly in sub-Saharan African nations - is here to review.

We draw your attention to the Jobs & Projects' platform that assists first, project-owners to tender for the best experts to carry out projects at very competitive costs, and, second, job-seekers to publish for free Résumés/CV to attract project-owners attention.

The Free and Pay-Per-Click advertisement platform is also the cheapest way to advertise for your business and drive traffic to your website.

- Contributor's Guidelines are here to review. Your contribution on "How emerging nations and particularly African countries / entrepreneurs could bridge the developing gap" is welcome.

Your feedback / objection / contribution is welcome. Visit WorldWide BizCenter, and choose General Information (as topic) to create a thread for discussion. On the top of the WorldWide BizCenter page, there is a HELP link to assist you making an efficient use of the discussion board. This link also is useful

Many thanks for dropping by and see you here on April 15, 2009

Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor of AFRICABIZ

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA

- Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.

1-SHEA BUTTER (5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13) 2- BLUE GOLD (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) 3- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN (20, 21, 22 and here) 4- KENAF (23, 24) 5- VEGETABLE OIL (25, 26, 27, 28) 6- CEREALS (30, 31, 32, 33) 7- FRUITS (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46) 8- ESSENTIAL OILS (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)	9- ROOTS & TUBERS (54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64) 10- FOWL BREEDING (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76) 11- FISH FARMING (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87) 12- BIOMASS ENERGY (89, 90, 91, 92) 13- SUGAR CANE & PRODUCTS (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99/100, 101, 102) 14- LIVESTOCK (103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112 15- MISCELLANEOUS (113, 114

- MISCELLANEOUS SERIES:RENEWABLE ENERGY: PART I: INTRODUCTION

Since 10 years running, Africabiz Online delivered hundred of developing opportunities to demonstrating that there are out there, all over African nations, untapped projects, that, when implemented can assist turning around the economy and create million of jobs.

With this delivery, Africabiz Online will start dealing randomly with these opportunities. That is issues pertaining to "Miscellaneous" will not be related to a specific category as we did for 10 years - and reported in the above listing-table. And from times to times, a previous delivery can be dealt with again, to highlight another angle of the problem.

The first delivery of this new publishing pattern concerns the problem of energy supply to the several opportunities previously reported - as electric energy supply in African countries is more or less erratic and only delivered to cities. Rural areas are simply left in the dark. The problem had been dealt with in several issues [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Issue above numbered/linked 2, pertaining to the biomass series [89, 90, 91, 92] and will provide a wealth of information to entrepreneurs interested in supplying biomass renewable energy to powering agribusiness in rural areas.

In addition to the biomass option, there are renewable energy systems based on wind force and sun-rays, which require the acquisition of "expensive" equipment. Therefore, they might be off limit to African farmers and starter-entrepreneurs in agribusiness. However, once the business is running and producing cash flow, these wind and sun based system will become attractive to supplying abundant and less costly energy.

Biomass energy producing systems are right away the most affordable as they are based on the cultivation of adequate crops species to obtaining huge amount of straw, cellulose materials and oils-seeds.

Next delivery (available on April 15, 2009) will consider the dedication of acreage to the cultivation of a cereal plant that produces huge amount of straw, which can be used as fuel to generating on-the-spot energy to powering crops processing units in rural areas.

MORE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

1- Solar Powered Wind Turbine By StuffJunction 2- Renewable Energy by Godfrey Boyle (Paperback - May 6, 2004) 3- Renewable Energy Policy by Paul Komor (Paperback - Mar 15, 2004) 4- Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes by Aldo V. da Rosa (Hardcover - Aug 3, 2005) 5-Renewable Energy Resources by John Twidell (Paperback - Dec 16, 2005)

6 - The Homeowner Guide To Renewable Energy by Dan Chiras (Paperback - Feb 1, 2006) 7- A Guide To Rural Energy Independence by William H. Kemp (Paperback - April 1, 2006) 8- Renewable Energy Made Easy by David Craddock (Paperback - Aug 18, 2008) 9- Renewable Energy In Nontechnical Words by Ann Chambers (Hardcover - Oct 2003) 10- Renewable Energy Third Edition by Bent Sorensen (S�rensen) (Hardcover - Jul 30, 2004)

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