Land use competition for production of food and liquid biofuels: An analysis of the arguments in the current debate

By Régis Rathmann, A. Szklo, Robert Schaeffer. 2010

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Sustainable supply chain management and the transition towards a circular economy: Evidence and some applications $ (2017, positive): “This direct competition between food and bioenergy may also result in higher prices for food (Ciaian and Kancs 2011), land use issues (Rathmann et al. 2010) and food security (Schmidhuber and Tubiello 2007), thus threatening the sustainability of food supply chains.”
• How should barriers to alternative fuels and vehicles be classified and potential policies to promote innovative technologies be evaluated (2012, background): “…impacts can include poor working conditions in biofuel-producing countries as well as spikes in food and commodity prices, which severely impact on the most vulnerable (Charles et al., 2007; Hammond et al., 2008; Nylund et al., 2008; Escobar et al., 2009; Lam et al., 2009; Rathmann et al., 2009).”
• Volatility linkages between energy and agricultural commodity prices (2016, background): “(2011) nd that ethanol price volatility is a ected by shocks in the oil and sugar market, which is a di erent result found in Zhang et al. (2009) found for U.S. market. Serra (2011) extends the results of Serra et al.”
• Biofuels versus food production: Does biofuels production increase food prices? (2011, background): “[16] a shift of areas traditionally used to food production to fuel has contributed to the increase of food prices in the short run, but this change cannot yet be called significant.”
• Global assessment of research and development for algae biofuel production and its potential role for sustainable development in developing countries (2013, background): “Liquid fuels obtained from the fermentation and esterification of crops such as maize, soy, and palm are already an established energy industry in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, and the European Union (Cheng and Timilsina, 2011).”
• Drivers for global agricultural land use change: The nexus of diet, population, yield and bioenergy (2015, background): “42 There is also considerable debate about the true impact of the emerging demand for 43 agricultural commodities as a bioenergy feedstock on food prices and volatility 44 (Eide, 2008; Mitchell, 2008; Rathmann et al., 2010; Slade et al., 2011), and the level 45 of indirect land use change (Haberl et”
• From post-productionism to reflexive governance: Contested transitions in securing more sustainable food futures (2013, background): “In an attempt to diversify away from this traditional energy source, a market for biofuels has developed; but bio-fuels production itself depends on the same inputs as crops grown for food consumption and competition for these may generate at least short term impacts on food prices (Rathmann et al.,”