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How Growing Demand for Ethanol Production and Changes in Land Use

News - 16 Nov 2008

The amount of agricultural land required to produce 15 billion gallons of grain ethanol in the United States by 2015, as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), is likely to...

Sustainable Cuisine, What Is Sustainable Cuisine and What Benefits Does it Offer for Improving the Quality of Food, Health and the Environment

Article - 3 Sep 2008

As transport improves, borders come down and tastes broaden, the food we eat comes from becomes increasingly distant and diverse locations, farmed in potentially damaging ways. The idea of sustainable...

Study Shows Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Bioenergy Systems

News - 19 Nov 2020

That biofuels can contribute to a cleaner global energy mix is widely accepted, but the net benefits of bioenergy in terms of mitigating greenhouse gases (GHG) are moot. Some argue, for example, that...

Ethanol Production Could Lead to Soil Productivity Problems

News - 3 Jun 2009

There is growing interest in using crop residues as the feedstock of choice for the production of cellulosic-based ethanol because of the more favorable energy output relative to grain-based ethanol....

Top 12 Areas for Innovation to 2025

News - 31 Jan 2008

The DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies recently released a series of 12 briefs that shed light on the top areas for technology innovation through 2025. “Biofuels,”...

Study Examines the Effect of Climate Change on U.S. Agriculture

News - 13 Dec 2018

A new research headed by Cornell University has revealed that Midwest agriculture is becoming more and more susceptible to climate change owing to the region’s dependence on the cultivation of...

Tool Shows Energy Use and Carbon Emissions Generated by Growing Crops in the United States

News - 9 Feb 2009

For the first time, farmers have data that tracks at the county level on-site and off-site energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with growing crops in the United States. This...

Switchgrass-Based Biofuel Produces 540 Percent More Energy

News - 8 Jan 2008

Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by...

New Method Allows Identification of Suitable Marginal Lands for Sustainable Biomass Production

News - 6 Mar 2017

Researchers from the Agroenergy group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (GA-UPM) have developed a methodology that allows them to identify suitable marginal lands to grow plant species...

Land Productivity Could be Increased by Combining Sheep Grazing and Solar Energy Production

News - 30 Apr 2021

Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and solar energy production on the same land, according to new research by Oregon State University scientists. This is...