Bioenergy and Food Security
| Considering trade policies for liquid biofuels Bioenergy is playing an increasingly important role as an alternative and renewable source of energy. Bioenergy includes solid biomass, biogas, and liquid biofuels. Combustion of biomass residues for heat and power generation is commercially viable ... |
Sep 2007 |
| Biodiversity, rights and livelihood – Agrofuels special issue In this article, a closer look is taken at the way corporations are using the stampede into agrofuels to extend their takeover of world farming. An unparalleled process of mergers, takeovers and alliances is tightening ... |
Jul 2007 |
| Agrofuels in Africa: the impacts on land, food and forests - Case Studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia Africa is at a crossroads of trying to reconcile the conservation of its vast cultural and natural heritage with the many and increasing needs of a growing population. Powerful external forces continue to divert the ... |
Jul 2007 |
| Is the expansion of biofuels at odds with the food security of developing countries? The development of biofuel production and its use may have profound impacts on both food production and distribution in the world market and developing countries: changing patterns of food demand and supply; increasing energy supply ... |
Jul 2007 |
| The rush to ethanol: not all biofuels are created equal - Analysis and recommendations for U.S. biofuels policy Corn-based ethanol has emerged as a leading contender to reduce dependence on fossil fuel–based gasoline. At first glance, corn-based ethanol seems simple, even patriotic: take the sugar from corn that U.S. farmers grow, and ferment ... |
Jul 2007 |
| Biofuels, agriculture and poverty reduction This paper addresses the role of biofuels in development and poverty reduction. For example, it has been argued that:energy crops are beginning a green revolution in Brazil;a bioproduct-based agro-revolution can offer a new development paradigm;biofuels ... |
Jun 2007 |
| Oil palm and other commercial tree plantations, monocropping: impacts on indigenous peoples’ land tenure and resource management systems and livelihoods This paper draws on important reports by various United Nations (UN) organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as from visits of members of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to countries where large-scale ... |
May 2007 |
| REEEP looks at complexity of producing biofuels in South Africa The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), one of the leading non-profit organizations promoting clean energy in the developing world, is studying the potential and problems associated with biofuels in South Africa. Simon Wilson ... |
May 2007 |
| Liquid biofuels in transport: conclusions and recommendations of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) As a result of renewed and growing interest in biofuels as a renewable energy source to substitute petroleum-derived products in the transport sector, the GEF received a number of project proposals to support biofuels in ... |
May 2007 |
| Biofuel production and the threat to South Africa's food security Biofuels production is increasing inexorably all over the world, driven by the rise in oil prices and the threat of climate change. This in turn is pushing up the price of food, especially of those ... |
Apr 2007 |
