● place

Chiapas (16 municipios; plantas en Cintalapa y Tapachula/Puerto Chiapas)

México

1 practice

0local

1subnational

0national

0systemic

Practices in Chiapas (16 municipios; plantas en Cintalapa y Tapachula/Puerto Chiapas)

Jatropha curcas (piñón) biofuels project in ChiapasState-level productive reconversion program that between 2007 and 2012 promoted the cultivation of Jatropha curcas (piñón) among thousands of Chiapas smallholder farmers to produce biodiesel, with extraction and biodiesel plants in Cintalapa and Tapachula (Puerto Chiapas) and service stations. In 2009 about 3,000 producers from 166 localities in 16 municipalities took part. The project failed: producers received poor-quality and late seed, germination was 0-40% in 79% of the cases, there was institutional instability (four government agencies within months), insufficient technical advice and delayed subsidies. Most of the decapitalized producers abandoned the plantations; the biodiesel plants were left abandoned (Cintalapa and Puerto Chiapas were dismantled around 2020).● Discontinued· scale subnational