Jan 29, 2015:

The World Resources Institute released installment nine of it's "Creating a Sustainable Food Future" project. The installment, entitled Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land, reports three major findings:

• Dedicating crops and/or land to generating bioenergy makes it harder to sustainably feed the planet.
• Bioenergy is an inefficient use of land to generate energy.
• Large estimates of GHG emissions reductions from bioenergy are based on a misplaced belief that biomass is inherently a carbon-free source of energy. Other types of renewable energy hold more promise to curb emissions and not compete with food security goals.

To read prior installments and other articles on the WRI website, click here.

Source:

"Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land". wri.org. Retrieved 2015-01-30.

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