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Bioenergy – opportunities and challenges of sustainable production
Bioenergy will contribute around 21% of the global primary energy demand by 2050.
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Biofuel - the burning issues
Dave Hemming tells us of the latest 'hot' topic featured in CAB Reviews
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Biofuel crops – Do they still bring about threats to food and water security in Africa?
A study survey has shown that 75% of farmers growing jatropha for biofuel in Mali, Africa, have experienced food insecurity and 38% reported a lack o...
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Biofuel production: sustainable or not?
World production of ethanol more than doubled between 2000 and 2005, while production of biodiesel quadrupled.
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Biofuels go bananas
Bananas are a staple crop of Rwanda, where the fruit is eaten raw, fried and baked. Around 2 million tons are grown each year but the fruit is only a ...
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Biofuels made from algae might not be as efficient as other fuels
Research on algae biofuels has mostly focused on improving the production of algae and algae-derived fuel rather than the fuel properties.
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Biofuels production and biodiversity
“In less economically advanced communities, increasing food prices or shifts in local crops from food to energy, will increase pressures on local biod...
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Biofuels sustainability: JRC designs methodology to calculate carbon stock changes
A key tool is the JRC's methodology to quantify changes to the amount of carbon in soils and biomass when land use changes as a result of biofuels pr...
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BioMara project to investigate the potential of algae for biofuels
BioMara, a €6 million project to investigate the feasibility of using marine macroalgae and microalgae as sustainable sources of biofuel, was launche...
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Biotechnology Will Transform Sustainable Biofuel Production, BIO Says
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Executive Vice President, Industrial & Environmental Section, Brent Erickson says that biotechnology will pl...
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