by Beatrice Philamon (IPP Media) Tanzanian and Brazilian experts are expected to carry out a countrywide survey to identify and propose
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Back TO HOMEJournal of Peasant Studies Publishes Perspectives on New Agrarian Relations Related to Biofuels
(Journal of Peasant Studies) In this collection we ask a number of questions emerging out of the new agrarian political
September 28, 2010 Read Full Article
ISAAA Chief Said Biotech Crops Only Way out of Global Poverty, Food Crises
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Canada, Dr. Clive James, executive director of the International Service for the Acquisition of
September 21, 2010 Read Full Article
Neighborhoods Fighting Plans for Biofuel Plant West of Delray Beach
by Andy Reid (Sun Sentinel) A biofuel plant offering renewable energy could become a never-ending headache for neighborhoods west of Delray
September 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Africa: Up for Grabs
(Friends of the Earth International) The African continent is increasingly being seen as a source of agricultural land and natural
August 30, 2010 Read Full Article
African Case Study: Palm Oil and Economic Development in Nigeria and Ghana; Recommendations for the World Bank's 2010 Palm Oil Strategy
by Thompson Ayodele (Initiative for Public Policy Analysis) Forward by Dr. Matthew O. Eshalomi: Growth and prosperity of an economy are
August 24, 2010 Read Full Article
Brazilian Biofuels Run into EU Obstacles
by Yans Felippe Geckler (IPS News) Brazil has begun a counterattack on the European Union's measures for certifying crop-based fuels,
August 24, 2010 Read Full Article
The Land Rush Doesn't Have to End in a Poor Deal for Africans
by Katie Allen (The Guardian) It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local
August 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Farmers & Ranchers Don’t Deserve Blame For World Hunger
by Richard Keller (Cattle Network) As renewable fuels continues to be something that people of the world support in general,
August 10, 2010 Read Full Article
World Bank Says Foreign Investors Are Crowding Out African Producers
by Katie Allen (The Guardian) Leaked report says wealthy investors are threatening local resources as they buy up farmland to
July 30, 2010 Read Full Article
25 Million Acres of Corn with Nowhere to Go, by 2030? A Digest Special Report
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...(D)oomsayers who have been predicting an inevitable conflict between food and fuel appear to have
July 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Considerations for Factoring Biomass into Clean Energy
(Washington Post) Editorial ...Many lawmakers want the government to require utilities to derive a certain percentage of their electricity from
July 06, 2010 Read Full Article
USDA Report Punches Another Hole in Land Use Change Theory
(Renewable Fuels Association) The amount of land dedicated to crops in the United States has dropped for the second straight year
July 01, 2010 Read Full Article
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation by Agricultural Intensification
by Jennifer A. Burney, Steven J. Davis, and David B. Lobell (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) As efforts to mitigate
June 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Biomass Better than Coal? War over Carbon Accounting Erupts
by Jim Lane (Biomass Digest) In Washington, the Environment Working Group has released a study that claims the impacts of
June 24, 2010 Read Full Article
China Corn Purchases Could Exceed 1 Million Tonnes
(Farm Chemicals International) The US Grains Council (USGC) says China could increase its corn purchases from the US to more than
June 21, 2010 Read Full Article
High-Yield Agriculture Slows Pace of Global Warming, Say Stanford Researchers
by Louis Bergeron (Stanford University) Advances in high-yield agriculture over the latter part of the 20th century have prevented massive amounts
June 21, 2010 Read Full Article
Life Cycle Assessment Comparing the Use of Jatropha Biodiesel in the Indian Road and Rail Sectors
by Michael Whitaker and Garvin Heath (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) This life cycle assessment of Jatropha biodiesel production and use evaluates the net
June 08, 2010 Read Full Article
Palm Oil’s Promotion as Diesel Alternative Draws Fire
by Beth Gardiner (New York Times) Ubiquitous in products from cookies to cosmetics, and increasingly in European fuel tanks, too,
June 04, 2010 Read Full Article
RFA: Carbon Accounting Should Be Equitable, Based on Science
(Renewable Fuels Association) The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) today continued to call into question accounting gimmicks and unproven theories used by
June 04, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels: Putting Pressure on Petrol
by Mark Bünger (RenewableEnergyWorld.com) ...To date, most biofuels and biomaterials developers have focused on lab- and demo-scale studies to improve
June 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Food, Feed and Fuel Combine for a Modicum of Grain Price Stability
by Treena Hein (Australian Farm Journal/June 2010) Despite all the debate about negative climate change impacts on agriculture and rising
June 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Figuring Land Use into Renewable-Energy Equation
by Martin LaMonica (CNET, ZDNet) Imagine if your country had an unlimited budget but a limited amount of land: what renewable
June 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Hanford Land Has Potential after Cleanup, Leaders Say
by Annette Cary (TriCityHerald.com) The Hanford nuclear reservation is getting cleaned up, and some of its land will be available for
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Indirect Land Use: One Consideration Too Many in Biofuel Regulation
by David Zilberman, Gal Hochman, and Deepak Rajagopal (Agricultural and Resource Economics Update -- University of California) ...While including Indirect Land Use
May 21, 2010 Read Full Article
EPA's 'Tailoring Rule' and the Biomass Industry
(RenewableEnergyWorld.com) ...Including biomass power plants under the EPA’s tailoring rule is a clear policy shift and may imply a change in
May 21, 2010 Read Full Article
What If There Is No Climate/Energy Bill? Civil Society Institute Report from Synapse Shows Clean Energy Future Still Possible for US
(The Clean) With Uncertainty Mounting About Climate/Energy Bill, Major New Study for CSI Details Path for Breaking Away From "Business As
May 13, 2010 Read Full Article
“You Have a Friend in Bioenergy”: Sustainability, Advanced Biofuels, Rural Incomes and the Developing World
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...With respect to energy security, consider this: it is estimated that ten percent of all
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Purdue Report Refutes Indirect Land Use Numbers
(Farm Futures) A recently completed analysis from Purdue University concluded that the California Air Resources Board overestimated the indirect land
May 04, 2010 Read Full Article
Towards Sustainable Biofuel Development: Assessing the Local Impacts of Large-Scale Foreign Land Acquisitions in Ghana
by George C. Schoneveld, Laura A. German, and Eric Nutakor (World Bank) This paper assesses the effectiveness of the Ghanaian
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
America Has Lost More Than Twenty-three Million Acres of Agricultural Land
(American Farmland Trust) —“The findings from the 2007 National Resources Inventory (NRI) serve as a stark reminder that our nation’s
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
NY Study Shows Biofuel Could Decrease Pollution, Create Jobs, and Increase Energy Security
(News Channel 34) New York sources of biofuel made from wood, grass and other forms of biomass could reduce New
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Your "Sustainable" Mantra -- Organic, Local, and Slow -- Is No Recipe for Saving the World's Hungry Millions
by Robert Paarlberg (Foreign Policy) ... Food has become an elite preoccupation in the West, ironically, just as the most effective
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Scientists Say Growing Grain for Food Is More Energy Efficient
(Michigan State University) Using productive farmland to grow crops for food instead of fuel is more energy efficient, Michigan State
April 20, 2010 Read Full Article
Jatropha: Mozambique's New Biofuel Hope
by Jeffrey Barbee (Global Post) ...Sun Biofuels, a British company, has been planting thousands of acres of jatropha at a
April 19, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels Digest Special Report on Biofuels, Genomics, and Feedstock Development
by Mackinnon Lawrence (Biofuels Digest) ...Genomics research can be applied to energy crops to select for sequencing based on relevance
April 02, 2010 Read Full Article
Liquid Biofuels:Background Brief for the World Bank Group Energy Sector Strategy
(Masami Kojima of the Oil, Gas, and Mining PolicyDivision of the World Bank/Scribd.com) Liquid biofuels are being increasingly used to
March 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Angolan Parliament Approves New Biofuels Law
by Henrique Almeida (Reuters) Angola's parliament on Wednesday approved a new law to regulate the production of biofuels, opening the
March 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Shapoorji, Ethiopia Ink 50,000ha Land Deal
by Shutapa Paul (liveMint.com, Wall Street Journal) The 140-year old construction firm, Shapoorji Pallonji and Co. Ltd, signed an agreement
March 23, 2010 Read Full Article
Farm Economy Follows Lead of U.S. Recovery, Says Annual FAPRI Baseline Report to Congress
The livestock sector can lead the agricultural economy to higher net farm income, assuming the farm economy benefits from a
March 23, 2010 Read Full Article
International Energy Forum's Assessment of Biofuels Potential and Limitiations
by Claude Mandil and Adnan Shihab-Eldin (International Energy Forum) Biofuels production, driven by the potential to contribute to energy security,
March 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Europe Kicks Off the Global Bioenergy Project
At least 20% of the energy needs in Europe can be met by bioenergy from sustainable agriculture without compromising food
March 16, 2010 Read Full Article
How Food And Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
by John Vidal (The Guardian; The Observer) ...The farm manager shows us millions of tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables being grown in
March 16, 2010 Read Full Article
University of Minnesota Speaker Says Global Land Use Must Be Considered in Biofuel Debate
by Heather Thorstensen (AgriNews.com) John Sheehan of the University of Minnesota says the debate on biofuels should shift from food
March 16, 2010 Read Full Article
Claims in ActionAid Publication against Biofuels Largely Questionable
(European Bioethanol Fuel Association) “Meals per Gallons”, a publication against biofuels recently produced by ActionAid, is based largely on unfounded claims,
March 01, 2010 Read Full Article
UC Merced Scientist Honored for Biofuels Research
(Central Valley Business Times) The mass production of biofuels could be a major step toward eliminating dependence on fossil fuels,
February 15, 2010 Read Full Article
Getting a True Measure on Biofuels: Effects of 'Indirect' Land Use Figure in Energy Future
by C. Boyden Gray (Washington Times) Little noticed outside a small policy community, an issue has quietly arisen in recent
February 15, 2010 Read Full Article
Weizmann Institute scientists show that in one kind of forest, its ‘energy budget’ includes significant reserves of heat
The simple formula we’ve learned in recent years – forests remove the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere; therefore forests
January 29, 2010 Read Full Article
International Technology Action Plan on Bioenergy Released
Bioenergy includes any kind of chemical energy accumulated through photosynthetic processes in organic plant matter (i.e., biomass). Example sources of
December 15, 2009 Read Full Article
Deforestation and Exploitation in Papua's Plantations Boom
(Environmental Investigation Agency) Field investigations by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak reveal that ill-prepared indigenous Papuan communities are
November 11, 2009 Read Full Article
The 7% Solution: Sustainable US Biofuels without International Indirect Land Use Effects
by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) Looking at some real-world numbers, it becomes clear that the fear raised in
October 23, 2009 Read Full Article
Africa: Land-Grabbing - the Why and the How
by Nikolaj Nielsen (All Africa.com; Pambazuka News) … Biofuels were then and continue to be in many respects hyped as
October 12, 2009 Read Full Article
Biofuels in Asia: An Analysis of Sustanability Options
(Clean Energy Asia) The purpose of this report is to provide an objective and comprehensive regional analysis summarizing the benefits