Title:
Integrated Food Energy Systems for Climate-Friendly Sustainable Agriculture - Overview and Challenges
Author(s):
Bogdanski, A., Dubois, O.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Integrated Food Energy Systems (IFES) are designed to integrate, intensify, and thus increase the simultaneous production of food and energy. This is achieved by diversifying land use and production, and by the use of agricultural and forest residues, leading to high resource efficiency and waste reduction. Biomass is the primary energy source for many developing countries, in some cases delivering up to 90 percent of their rural energy consumption. At the same time, the use of biomass to produce biofuels for transport is on top of many national agendas, causing controversy regarding their potential risk to food security for the rural poor in developing countries as well as regarding their potentially negative impact on greenhouse gas emission reductions and other environmental aspects. The application of IFES addresses both issues: (i) securing the most basic needs of small-scale farmers, food and energy, and (ii) offering a potential solution to environmental challenges that large-scale biofuel production has been facing.
Keywords:
bioenergy, climate change, food security, mixed crop livestock system, agroforestry, zero-waste systems
Topic:
Policies and ensuring sustainability
Subtopic:
Impacts of bioenergy policies on food and land
Event:
18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
OE3.3
Pages:
2146 - 2157
ISBN-13:
978-88-89407-56-1
ISBN-10:
88-89407-56-5
Paper DOI:
10.5071/18thEUBCE2010-OE3.3
Price:
FREE
