“Marginal land” for energy crops: Exploring definitions and embedded assumptions

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Renewable energy and biodiversity: Implications for transitioning to a Green Economy (2017, background): “In the context of renewable energy the terms ‘degraded’ and ‘marginal’ land have been used synonymously and interchangeably with unused, idle, abandoned, undeveloped, fallow and low biomass land [472].”
Response of giant reed (Arundo donax L.) to nitrogen fertilization and soil water availability in semi-arid Mediterranean environment. (2014, background): “agronomic, economic or social reasons of marginality) to nsure biomass production without encroaching agricultural lands, orest lands, highly biodiverse grassland or lands with high carbon tocks (Shortall, 2013).”
Morphological and physiological traits for higher biomass production in perennial rhizomatous grasses grown on marginal land (2015, background): “Despite the uncertainty in defining precisely what is marginal land (Shortall, 2013), and consequently knowing how much can be used for energy crop production, there is possibly as much as 100 Mha available globally (Fritz et al.”