CHANGING ENVIRONMENT--Dealing with disaster / Biofuel-material cultivation grows

This is the second installment in a three-part series focusing on global environmental problems expected to be taken up at the G-8 meeting. A 1,000-hectare plantation 20 times the size of Tokyo Disneyland stretches out over hilly terrain in Hluti, Swaziland, a tiny landlocked country in the southeast of the African continent. Planted there is Jatropha curcas, a biofuel material that forms stripe patterns along contours of the land.