Bioenergy and Food Security
| 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 cereals... |
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... |
Nov 2008 |
| Food, farmers and fuel: balancing global grain and energy policies with sustainable land use The public debate on agrofuels changed dramatically over the past year. What started out as an intriguing proposal on an apparently innovative alternative fuel source quickly turned into an important and contentious topic of... |
Nov 2008 |
| Sugarcane ethanol - Contributions to climate change mitigation and the environment The aim of this publication is to set the stage for the discussion about both challenges and concerns of sugarcane ethanol by providing the scientific context, the basic concepts and the approach for understanding the debate on... |
Nov 2008 |
| Biofuels and the underlying causes of high food prices There are several explanations to the sharp price increase. One of the first rules of economics is that prices are determined by supply and demand, but the classical ideal market assumption and the fall of commodity prices in... |
Oct 2008 |
| Sustainable bioenergy development in UEMOA Member Countries This report, led by the UN Foundation, in partnership with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, the Energy and Security Group and the Global Bioenergy Partnership, identifies opportunities, assesses... |
Oct 2008 |
| Statement by the director-general on the occasion of the launch of SOFA 2008 This document contains the statement made by the director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Jacques Diouf, on the occasion of the launch of SOFA 2008. |
Oct 2008 |
| The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 - Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 explores the implications of the recent rapid growth in production of biofuels based on agricultural commodities. The boom in liquid biofuels has been largely driven by policies in developed... |
Oct 2008 |
| U.S. corn growers: producing food & fuel Accelerated growth in corn use for ethanol has led critics to question corn growers’ ability to satisfy demand for both renewable fuels and traditional markets such as livestock and poultry feed, food processing and... |
Oct 2008 |
| Seized! The 2008 land grab for food and financial security Today’s food and financial crises have, in tandem, triggered a new global land grab. On the one hand, “food insecure” governments that rely on imports to feed their people are snatching up vast areas of farmland abroad for their... |
Oct 2008 |
