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The New York Times today (Sept. 9), has a story on the increasing cultivation of jatropha, a potential source of biofuel, by farmers in Mali, where the plant has long been used as a natural fence in the country: . . . a plant called jatropha is being hailed by scientists and policy makers as a potentially ideal source of biofuel, a plant that can grow in marginal soil or beside food crops, that does not require a lot of fertilizer and yields many times as much biofuel per acre planted as corn and many other potential biofuels. . . […]