Bioenergy
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- An overview of ethanol production across the Americas
- ( M., A. Seixas / Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture , 2007)
- This document is the first volume in a series of three on the current state of agroenergy and bio-fuel production in the Americas. Produced at the request of the Inter-American Ethanol Commission, it ...
- What can G8 leaders do to address the food crisis?
- ( ActionAid International , 2008)
- Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this ...
Is it time to dismantle support and incentives for biofuels?
- ( R. Bailey / Oxfam , 2008)
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Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. However, this Oxfam Briefing Paper argues that they are not be a solution to either, and...
Is oil palm production viable and sustainable in Kalimantan, Indonesia?
- ( S. Mantel;H. Wösten;J. Verhagen / Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands , 2007)
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There is an increasing global demand for oil palm, but its production provokes societal debate on the environmental and social aspects that surround it, particularly in southeast Asia. This st...
- How are biofuels impacting poor people's access to land?
- ( L. Cotula;N. Dyer;S. Vermeulen / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2008)
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The policy debate about the merits and demerits of biofuels is growing and changing rapidly, with concerns being voiced over their effectiveness for mitigating climate change, role in recent food p...
- An alternative plan to save the world from ecological crisis
- ( L. Brown / Earth Policy Institute , 2008)
- This publication argues that the roots of the current environmental dilemmas lie in the enormous growth of the human enterprise over the last century. The author presents an alternative plan to save c...
Addressing the gender-differentiated risks of liquid biofuel production
- ( A. Rossi;Y. Lambrou / Economic and Social Department, FAO , 2008)
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The production of liquid biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This ...
- How is the changing world food situation affecting the poor, and what can be done about it?
- ( J. von Braun / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008)
- The world food situation is being rapidly redefined, as income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalisation, and urbanisation transform food consumption, production, and markets. This pap...
Challenging the official rhetoric: the Brazilian grassroots critique of agrofuels
- ( C. Moreno;A. Mittal / The Oakland Institute , 2008)
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Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global...
What impact has a decade of GM crops had on Argentina's agriculture?
- ( E.J. Trigo;E.J. Cap / Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (National Institute for Agricultural Technology), Argentina , 2006)
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Argentina is the world's second largest producer of genetically modified (GM) crops, after the United States, with over 17 million hectares planted. This paper explores the assertion that the intro...
