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Tag Archives: biofuel
Food security and biofuels
Biofuels are renewable because they’re made from plants or animals, which grow. But sometimes biofuels are produced in ways that are not sustainable. Hungry people sometimes pay the cost. Can food security and biofuels go hand in hand? Today Léna … Continue reading
Posted in food, knowledge transfer, money and trade, weather and climate
Tagged access to land, algae, biodiversity, biofuel, climate, development, export, farmer, fire, food security, knowledge, land grab, land use, law, livestock, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, politics, poverty, prosperity, tillage, trade, tradition, waste, water
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Green Rush to carve up Africa
‘There is a gold rush happening in Ethiopia, but it’s not a hunt for the yellow metal. It’s a quest for the green gold of fertile farmland.’ So says Richard Schiffman at Farmland Grab. ‘A nation more associated with periodic … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged access to food, access to land, agroecology, banana, biofuel, cacao, coffee, crop, development, export, farmer, food security, fruit, grain, history, knowledge, land grab, legume, palm, palm oil, pastoral, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, rice, smallholder, soya, staple food, sustainable, trade, wheat
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More corn grown in U.S. this year than ever before. Thanks, biofuels.
argylesock says… We can hope for more ‘advanced biofuels’ but just now, biofuels in the USA are mostly from corn (maize, Zea mays).
Posted in agriculture, money and trade
Tagged biofuel, conservation, corn, crop, cropland, eutrophic, fertiliser, fuel, grain, herbicide, land use, maize, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, pollution, research, soya, sustainable, technology, trade, waterway
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Developing advanced biofuels
In the United States, the Agriculture Secretary is Tom Vilsack. He’s offering money to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels. ‘Advanced biofuels’ means that these fuels are to come from non-food sources. … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture, money and trade
Tagged algaculture, algae, biobased industry, biofuel, biotechnology, conservation, corn, finance, food waste, forest, fuel, land use, maize, palm oil, plant_monocot, tree, waste, woodland
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It’s agricultural, but is it art?
Jeremy Cherfas at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog shows us two art projects about grains. I love the one about high fructose corn syrup. The one about printed landscapes is harder to understand, but as Jeremy says, art is supposed to make … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer
Tagged art, biodiversity, biofuel, corn, crop, ecosystem, finance, food, food processing, grain, habitat fragmentation, knowledge, landscape, maize, oats, plant_monocot, technology, wild flower, wildlife
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Existing cropland could feed four billion more by dropping biofuels and animal feed
Emily Cassidy at the University of Minnesota says that four billion more people could eat if existing croplands were used in better ways. ‘We already produce enough calories to feed a few billion more people. As our planet gets more … Continue reading
Where are we going with biofuels?
The word ‘sustainable’ can ring hollow. Like ‘the environment’ and ‘the people’, ‘sustainable’ is an easy thing to say without meaning much. One of my most loyal blog followers, eqfe, has commented a few times about my ‘sustainable’ tag here. … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged algaculture, algae, arboriculture, arthropod, biofuel, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, canola, corn, crop, energy, entomoculture, food, fuel, grain, insect, land use, law, maize, oilseed, palm, palm oil, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, rapeseed, renewable, sustainable, technology, trade, transport, tree, waste
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Livestock Sector Development in China
argylesock says… There are huge successes in China now. But they come at a cost as my fellow blogger raziqkakar says here. ARKBIODIV.COM China, being the largest country with human population has developed its livestock sector efficiency manifolds in last … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged biofuel, development, food, livestock, manure, pollution, prosperity, sustainable, trade
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When it comes to food, technology won’t save us
argylesock says… Food security isn’t all about GM (genetic modification, GE) and other kinds of biotech. But those can help.
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, knowledge transfer
Tagged access to land, agroecology, biofuel, biotechnology, cattle, crop, development, feed, food, food security, food waste, fuel, genetic modification, laboratory, livestock, mammal, marker assisted selection, meat, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, population, poverty, research, ruminant, vertebrate
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Tree of the month: Willow
This photograph of willow leaves, provided to the Centre for Biosciences Imagebank by Prof Paul F. Brain at the University of Wales, Swansea, illustrates an instalment in my Tree of the Month series. I base this series (‘ogham’ tag) loosely … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged arboriculture, bacterium, biofuel, bird, bryophyte, conservation, ecosystem, fungus, habitat creation, human, invertebrate, lake, land reclamation, landscape, lichen, moss, ogham, pharmaceutical, plant_dicot, pond, poplar, protozoan, river, tree, vertebrate, wildlife, willow
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