Bioenergy and Global Food Situation until 2020/2050

Zhu, Tingju
Msangi, Siwa
Ewing, Mandy
Rosegrant, Mark W.

2008

978-3-9396191-21-9

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In this report, we investigate the interactions between biofuel demand and production and the demand and production of food and feed crops, in order to better assess how future growth in biofuel production could impact food prices and consumption, food security and other dimensions of overall human welfare. While the scenario-driven quantitative analysis that we do takes on a global perspective, we also consider the various factors that might affect economic and environmental outcomes at the country-level, so that we can better understand how different biofuel development plans might interact with world food markets and affect human livelihoods. The environmental impacts of future growth in biofuels are also considered, along with numerous implications for policy that are drawn from the results and evidence that we are able to produce. [Extracto, Introduction]

Biocombustibles; Bioenergía; Seguridad alimentaria; Sostenibilidad ambiental;