Biofuels in Congo Brazzaville

Biofuels in Congo Brazzaville

This report was produced with the support of Pulitzer Center Reporting Grants Some fields are abandoned, others have been brought back into production by local families, growing subsistence crops like cassava. We are in Louvakou, Niari department, in the southwestern part of the Republic of Congo. We fly a drone over rain-soaked fields, where until a year ago, one of Eni Congo’s agricultural projects, a subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni,…