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Avoiding bioenergy competition for food crops and land [1]

This paper shows that any dedicated use of land for growing bioenergy inherently comes at the cost of not using that land for growing food or animal feed, or for storing carbon. It recommends several policy changes to phase out forms of bioenergy that use crops or that otherwise make dedicated use of land. What is the role of bioenergy in a sustainable food future? The answer must recognize the intense global competition for land, and that any dedicated use of land for bioenergy inherently comes at the cost of not using that land for food, feed, or sustained carbon storage.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2015
Tim Searchinger [2], Ralph Heimlich [3]
World Resources Institute [4]
Tags:
Biofuels [5], Food Crops [6], Biomass [7], Green House Gases [8], Land [9], Agriculture [10], Ethanol [11], Biodiesel [12], Land Degradation [13], India [14], Global [15]
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