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Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land, Creating a Sustainable Food Future

Author: Tim Searchinger and Ralph Heimlich

Date: 2015

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: Report

Topics: Land use

Installment 9 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future 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.

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Organization: World Resources Institute