Crosscut Seattle - Gauging the biofuels backlash
This is a thoughtful overview of the complexities of issues these days. Worth a read and not just becaues it links back to one of my posts.
NetNow Linkblog: What we're reading today at NRDC
Nathanael Greene's Links Tagged "land"
How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest | csmonitor.com
As I mentioned in a related note, while this does show that as a globe we're not food constrained, it does not disprove the economic dynamics that drive LUC and the related GHG emissions
Yale Environment 360: Program To Help Small Farmers Triples Corn Harvest in Kenyan Community
The CSM article mentioned here shows that on a global scale, food is not supply limited, but that doesn't mean reductions in supply due to today's biofuels don't cause price increase and land-use change. They do until we fix the system.
Yale Environment 360: Global Commodities Boom Fuels New Assault on Amazon
The economics of supply and demand are impossible to deny. As a result we need to regulate biofuels so that their feedstocks don't drive these impacts.
RSB Current Debate on Land Use - BioenergyWiki
This is a great resource with links to much of the current back and forth on GHG emissions from indirect land use change from biofuels.
Better biofuels before more biofuels by Dr. Alex Farrell
This is a very thoughtful op-ed by one of the preminent thinkers about low carbon fuels and policies to advance them.
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