Bioenergy and Sustainability
| Perceptions on fairness and efficiency of the REDD value chain - Methods and results from pilot analyses in Indonesia and Peru Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) will require a ‘value chain’ that links global beneficiaries to local actions towards high carbon storing land use patterns. The value chain includes: effectively... |
2010 |
| Knowledge sharing for improved food security and better nutrition - Global forum on Food Security and Nutrition - FSN forum The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) was created to strengthen FAO’s capacity in knowledge sharing. The Forum is an online community where members can share experiences, identify resources, provide peer... |
Jan 2010 |
| Meals per gallon - The impact of industrial biofuels on people and global hunger According to the authors of this report, industrial biofuels would not offer a solution to the two main aims of EU biofuel policy – to combat climate change and increase fuel security. Rather, industrial biofuels would fuel... |
2010 |
| Biofuels, land access and rural livelihoods in Tanzania This report investigates and describes patterns of biofuel development in Tanzania. It looks at the spread and scale, crop use and different models of biofuel production through several case studies. It also outlines the... |
Dec 2009 |
| Small scale sustainable farmers are cooling down the earth Farmers -‐ men and women -‐ around the world are joining hands with other social movements, organizations, people and communities to ask for and to develop radical social, economic and political transformations to reverse the... |
Dec 2009 |
| Global potential of sustainable biomass for energy Through a review of existing data and literature, this report synthesizes the amount of information and its relative distribution in different fields.The report contains two main sections, organized around bioenergy issues... |
Dec 2009 |
| Better use of biomass for energy - Position paper of IEA RETD and IEA Bioenergy With this position paper, IEA RETD and IEA Bioenergy present key findings from a joint project on “Better Use of Biomass for Energy” which identifies opportunities• of bioenergy for better greenhouse-gas reduction, and• of... |
Dec 2009 |
| Bioenergy – A sustainable and reliable energy source (main report) The supply of sustainable energy is one of the main challenges that mankind will face over the coming decades, particularly because of the need to address climate change.Biomass can make a substantial contribution to supplying... |
Dec 2009 |
| Cookstoves and markets: experiences, successes and opportunities GVEP International’s vision to reach millions of men, women and children in rural and peri urban areas by focusing on market mechanisms is a challenge in itself. Energy access for the poor has multi-dimensional facets and this... |
Dec 2009 |
| Agrofuels, Brazil and conflicting land uses Biomass energy only accounts for a small share of global energy use, 10 percent. Most of this is used as fire wood and charcoal. The part of the biomass that is set aside for liquid fuels is so small that it hardly shows in the... |
Dec 2009 |
