Food Versus Biofuels: Environmental and Economic Costs

By D. Pimentel, A. Marklein, Megan A. Toth, Marissa Karpoff, G. Paul, R. McCormack, J. Kyriazis, Tim Krueger. 2009

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Biomedical Engineering, Ecology

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A system of systems approach to energy sustainability assessment: Are all renewables really green? (2015, methodology): “Sims et al. (2003) analyzed the efficiency of different nergy sources for their economic and carbon mitigation potenial and concluded that nuclear, wind, hydropower and bioenergy echnologies are efficient, while solar and carbon sequestration echnologies are not.”
Potential of Underutilized Traditional Vegetables and Legume Crops to Contribute to Food and Nutritional Security, Income and More Sustainable Production Systems (2014, background): “Furthermore, there is evidence that the production of biofuels from grain crops is another driver for stronger competition for land, water, and energy—resources that are vital for food production [7].”
The global spread of crop pests and pathogens (2014, background): “Land-use change and economic forces, such as the use of crops for biofuels (Pimentel et al., 2009), have resulted in unexpected shifts in production, indicating that projections of future agricultural scenarios will require detailed modelling.”
Modeling of biomass-to-energy supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research directions (2014, background): “Some argue that biomass supply chains, if designed and planned improperly, could interfere with local and global supply chain of other goods and materials (by over pressuring an already overwhelmed transport sector) driving the prices of commodities further up (Pimentel et al., 2009).”
Food Security in the Face of Salinity, Drought, Climate Change, and Population Growth (2016, background): “The problem is exacerbated by the increasing competition for nonfood uses of crops, for example, biofuels (Pimentel et al., 2009), and by rising standards of living, especially increased meat consumption, that alter global market structure.”
Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services (2010, background): “With nearly total biomass harvested, biodiversity and food supplies in the USA would be decimated (Pimentel et al. 2009).”
Ecosystem Services and Food Security: Economic Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability (2010, background): “Furthermore, evidence suggests that the production of biofuels from grain crops increases competition for land, water, and energy that are vital for food production, and exacerbates the problem of malnutrition worldwide [21].”
Sustainable development and equity (2009, background): “…also pose potential adverse environmental and social risks, and thus give rise to concerns about their regulation and governance (Mitchell, 2008; Pimentel et al., 2009; de Paula Gomes and Muylaert de Araujo, 2011; Shrader-Frechette, 2011; Jackson, 2011b; Scheidel and Sorman, 2012; Scott, 2013;…”