Biofuels and rainforests

CW Ogg - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2008 - jswconline.org
C limate negotiators want developed countries to pay farmers in tropical countries such as
Indonesia to stop burning down rainforests. Two years ago, this might have offered a real …

Biofuels and the environment

JL Schnoor - 2006 - ACS Publications
Farmers grow the three Fs—food, feed, and fiber—for the world. Now, for the first time, they
are being called upon to produce a fourth F: fuel. But the burgeoning growth of corn and …

The promise and peril of biofuels

CA Cox - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2007 - jswconline.org
The conservation implications of our drive to increase production of biofuels—ethanol,
biodiesel, and other liquid fuels—was a major topic of conversation at our recent Soil and …

[PDF][PDF] The impacts of tropical biofuel production on land-use: the case of Indonesia

T Soyka, C Palmer, S Engel - Conference on International …, 2007 - researchgate.net
Human-induced climate change due to the increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases in the past 100 years has impacted and continues to impact on …

Setting America on the right biofuels path.

J Sibbing - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2007 - go.gale.com
Nearly all Americans support the concept of moving our nation toward less reliance on
foreign oil and toward clean, renewable sources of energy. To some it is simply a matter of …

Agriculture and land use issues

JR Hess, JJ Jacobson, DL Karlen… - Food versus Fuel: An …, 2010 - books.google.com
Large-scale biofuels development as a source of renewable energy will shift current
dynamics in the agricultural sector that deliver food, feed and fibre. This shift will challenge …

8 Opportunities and Challenges of Biofuel Production

R Lal - Soil Quality and Biofuel Production, 2009 - books.google.com
Land, Water, and Nutrient Demands................................................................. 201 Research and
Development Priorities.................................................................... 202 Conclusions …

[PDF][PDF] Biofuels: Will they improve food security in Laos?

C Noble, IA Eldridge - worldfoodprize.org
Laos, a landlocked country between Thailand and Vietnam, is one of a few places in the
world that has yet to be exploited at a high level by foreign and local private sectors. Eighty …

Answers and analysis needed to guide the use of biofuels as a renewable energy source

JL Steiner - Journal of soil and water conservation, 2008 - jswconline.org
D iscussions of biofuels, bioenergy, and bio-based products are ubiquitous these days. The
tone of the dialog ranges from support of grain-based ethanol as the near-term solution to …

[BOOK][B] Biofuels: implications for land use and biodiversity

VH Dale, KL Kline, J Wiens, J Fargione - 2010 - researchgate.net
Biofuels, generally defined as liquid fuels derived from biological materials, can be made
from plants, vegetable oils, forest products, or waste materials. The raw materials can be …