Fuel or food? Study sees increasing competition for land, water resources
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
About one-third of the world's malnourished population could be fed by using resources now used for biofuel production, new research indicates. As strategies for energy security, investment opportunities and energy policies prompt ever-growing production and consumption of biofuels like bioethanol and biodiesel, land and water that could otherwise be used for food production increasingly are used to produce crops for fuel.