Bioenergy and Food Security

Jatropha oil – The end of the biodiesel food vs fuel debate?

Jatropha has been hailed as the high-productivity crop to replace food crops such as soy or rape as sources of vegetable oil for biodiesel.This article reviews how jatropha oil production has developed recently and assesses ...

Jul 2009
The market and food security implications of the development of biofuel production

With the prospects of higher energy requirements in the longer term and the need for reducing GHG emission, biofuel production could be an important source of sustainable energy supply although it will only represent a ...

Apr 2009
Making sustainable biofuels work for smallholder farmers and rural households - Issues and perspectives

In developing countries, liquid biofuel production (LBP) - particularly if small in scale – offers potential opportunities for poverty reduction and rural development, through the creation of both income-generating opportunities for farmers and jobs for ...

Apr 2009
Biofuels and food security - Implications of an accelerated biofuels production - Summary of the OFID study prepared by IIASA

The year 2008 will perhaps be remembered as the defining moment when the world experienced the reality of the inter-linkages and interdependencies between food and energy. A number of factors including the adoption of mandatory ...

Mar 2009
Thailand biofuels’ impact on food crops

Biofuel consumption increased significantly in 2008 as petroleum prices reached a record high.The run-up in crude oil prices left gasohol and biodiesel as cheaper options for Thai consumers. Attractive prices for E10 (a mixture of ...

Mar 2009
EEA Signals 2009 - Key environmental issues facing Europe

Signals is published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) at the start of each year and provides snapshot stories on issues of interest both to the environmental policy debate and the wider public for the ...

Jan 2009
Bioenergy and biofuels: opportunities and constraints

It is still controversial whether biofuels, particularly first generation biofuels, deliver net GHG benefits. Policies concerning biofuel production will need to require that feedstock production practices do not create net additional emissions of GHGs directly, ...

Jan 2009
The feeding of the nine billion: global food security for the 21st century

Between mid-2007 and mid-2008, the issue of rising global food prices moved to the very forefront of the international political agenda. Tens of millions more people were pushed into hunger and poverty as a result; ...

Jan 2009
Country responses to the food security crisis: nature and preliminary implicatio

A number of factors have contributed to raising food prices. On the demand side, food consumption expanded rapidly in developing countries as a result of strong global economic growth in 2004-07. A dietary transition from ...

Dec 2008
Biofuels, food security and compensatory subsidies

CEPEA/ESALQ/USP (the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics, Brazil) has recently evaluated the economic and financial viability of both ethanol and biodiesel production in Brazil using both Value Chain Analyses and Linear Programming Optimizations ...

Nov 2008
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