Livelihood, landscape & biodiversity studies and forecasts

About expected and real life effects of biofuels

The land use and livelihoods aspects of biofuels/agrofuel production - especially in developing counties - form the core theme of our information service. This section gives an overview of basic considerations before starting with any biofuel crop, and it gives some highlights of studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and other areas.

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Proceedings & presentations of conferences

Debates taking off in the 2007-2008 period

If any topic knew a boom of events and debates over the years 2007 and 2008 it has been the topic of biofuels and the debate has not stopped. Here, we present some highlights of proceedings of influential debates over those first 2 years.

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Position statements, policy notes and advocacy letters

Examples of taking a stand

This section is quite unique as it gives an overview of the position statements on biofuels of various Natureandpoverty.net partners and infuential expert organizations. If you write one yourself...here's your inspiration! It also offers examples of lobby letters.

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Bioenergy potential and technological development

Some references to the technological discussions

Experts talk about the first, second and third generation biofuels, and of their potential. What does this mean and what is happening in the three categories of technological developments? On this wiki a humble contribution only..... 

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Standard setting and its progress

EU and elsewhere

That unregulated production of (first generation) biofuels may have negative impacts, is widely acknowledged by now. But what can standard setting and certification do to control such effects? This section deals with a variety of initiatives and their progress.

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Bioenergy development policies 

General, in EU and developing countries

This section is only recently created to gather materials on biofuel policies in developing countries (and how they relate to the EU & US policies). It also reports on the land use and CO2 EFFECTS of bioenergy policies in general.
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Sustainable energy alternatives

Beyond biofuels?

First, second or third generation biofuels....or should one rather invest in other energy sources such as solar and wind energy, or locally produced biogas? Here, we mainly refer to other useful info sources.

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