Biomass and Bioenergy

Gideon Baklit is a Professor of Rural Development in the Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Jos, Nigeria. He has been a Consultant on several rural development projects spanning over agriculture and farm service centers in Plateau State, Nigeria. He was been a Team Leader on a three year Biomass Higher Education Research Programme with Kings College London during 2000-2002. As a follow up to the Research Linkage, he was invited to Loughborough University in the United Kingdom to present a paper on the stage of Biomass development in Nigeria, April 2012. At the moment, he is working with other colleagues in the Department and National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, Plateau State, Nigeria on research partnership for the promotion and development of alternative energy especially biomass based electricity generation using an appropriate renewable energy policy.