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Land-Use Change and Food Supply

In: The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty

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  • Jevgenijs Steinbuks

    (The World Bank)

  • Govinda R. Timilsina

    (The World Bank)

Abstract

Large-scale deployment of biofuels has a profound effect on allocation of land resources. The expansion of biofuels industry requires a greater amount of crop lands for producing biofuel feedstocks. This additional crop lands could be supplied through (1) reallocation of existing crop lands from other crops (e.g., rice, fruits and vegetables, tobacco, cotton) towards production of biofuel feedstocks (e.g., corn, sugarcane, jatropha, rapeseed), (2) conversion of forest and pasture lands to crop lands. The land-use change thus occurs directly and indirectly. For example, when forest land is converted to produce sugarcane, such conversion is termed as direct land-use change. When biofuels displace existing crop lands in one part of the world, and production of food crops increases in other parts of the world (e.g., by converting forest lands to crop lands), this conversion is termed as indirect land-use change.

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  • Jevgenijs Steinbuks & Govinda R. Timilsina, 2014. "Land-Use Change and Food Supply," Natural Resource Management and Policy, in: Govinda R. Timilsina & David Zilberman (ed.), The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 91-102, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nrmchp:978-1-4939-0518-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0518-8_7
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    1. Kuhn, Arnim & Endeshaw, Kassahun, 2015. "Trends and Drivers of Crop Biomass Demand: Sub-Saharan Africa vs the Rest of the World," Discussion Papers 212930, University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics.

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