Buchanan Renewables...While the company actively promoted its business model of producing biomass from old unproductive rubber trees as a sustainable one, it also received criticism due to the fact that smallholder rubber farmers were not benefitting as much as they had expected...The report evaluates four different issues related to BR’s activities: 1) The regulatory framework for BR’s operations in Liberia; 2) the impacts on smallholder rubber farmers; 3) the impacts on the Liberian charcoal market; and 4) tax avoidance through its corporate structure...while BR has begun to address a number of the complaints by smallholder farmers, a number of other demands have yet to be addressed...The methodology of this research...a company review procedure, whereby BR could indicate any factual errors or misunderstandings in the initial findings, and provide the researchers with their response to the issues raised and provide additional materials. [also refers to Vattenfall, Lawrence Asset Management, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Firestone]