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Indirect land‐use change: how can we avoid negative impacts?
Author(s) -
Fritsche Uwe
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
biofuels, bioproducts and biorefining
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.931
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1932-1031
pISSN - 1932-104X
DOI - 10.1002/bbb.281
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , natural resource economics , competition (biology) , climate change , land use, land use change and forestry , land use , agricultural economics , biofuel , economics , ecology , biology
As interest in biofuels has grown, concerns over competition for land use with food have been raised and the issue of indirect land‐use change has become a topic of debate. For example, if country A decides to convert more corn to biofuels and therefore exports less, country B may run short on corn for food. As a result, country B may clear forests to grow more corn itself. Such indirect land‐use changes result in higher greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of biologically precious regions. How can this threat be tackled? For BioFPR, Brigitte Osterath interviews Uwe Fritsche , Coordinator of the Energy and Climate Division at the Öko‐Institut (Institute for applied ecology) in Darmstadt, Germany. Copyright © 2011 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd