Introduction:
Energy security is a key component for economic sustainability in a modern functioning society. Africa is a major provider of fossil fuels however the global move to adopt carbon neutral fuels to assist climate change actions also provides Southern Africa with the opportunity to leverage its large scale biomass feedstocks and industrial production capacity to develop and deploy bioenergy technologies in the key biofuels, bio-power and renewable sectors. This should be an opportunity for Africa as a whole to compete favourably with more advanced economic regions and in doing so, create new technologies, employment and incomes.