Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land, Creating a Sustainable Food Future
Author: Tim Searchinger and Ralph Heimlich
Date: 2015
Location: a:1:{s:64:"wpcf-fields-checkboxes-option-4945e049adc7d67d822b5ea5e4bf740e-1";a:1:{i:0;s:9:"Worldwide";}}a:1:{s:64:"wpcf-fields-checkboxes-option-4945e049adc7d67d822b5ea5e4bf740e-1";a:1:{i:0;s:9:"Worldwide";}}
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.
Read More (Web page)
Organization:
World Resources Institute
Back to Biomass Info Library
