Tag Archives: Food security

Affordable food

  By iip | October 14, 2011 - 3:26 am | Energy
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I agree with argument on the development of biofuel threatening Indonesia food security. It happen mainly through land conversion. In the next decades, biofuel crops will dominate agricultural land and decreasing forest land.

Today I read a 2006 publication on agricultural land conversion. It says that the accelerating rate of conversion of agricultural lands in mainly caused by very low incentives to work in agriculture compared to industrial and service sectors. I try to link it with biofuel development. (more…)

Biofuel demand changes land-use and food supply

  By iip | June 10, 2011 - 12:37 am | Energy
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There are some facts revealed by various biofuel papers, emphasizing the high cost of production, economic potential of second-generation and large scale of advanced biofuel technology.

The most recent paper published by WB analyzes the long term impact of large scale expansion of biofuel on land-use change, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions. (more…)