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Bioenergy and agricultural research for development

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Title Bioenergy and agricultural research for development
 
Creator Reddy, B V S
Wani, S P
Ramesh, S
Bohn, M
Dixon, J
Araus, J L
Warburton, M
Sayre, K
Iwanaga, M
Crouch, J H
Ortiz, R
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Converting agriculture to produce energy as well as food has
become an important and well-funded global research goal
as petroleum reserves fall and fuel prices rise. But the use of crop
biomass—both grain and other plant parts—as a raw material for
bioenergy production may compete with food and feed supplies and
remove valuable plant residues that help sustain soil productivity
and structure and avoid erosion. Agricultural research can mitigate
these trade-offs by enhancing the biomass traits of dual-purpose
food crops, developing new biomass crops for marginal lands where
there is less competition with food crops, and developing sustainable
livestock management systems.............
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4331/1/Bioenergy_and_agricultural_research_for_development.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Wani, S P and Ramesh, S and Bohn, M and Dixon, J and Araus, J L and Warburton, M and Sayre, K and Iwanaga, M and Crouch, J H and Ortiz, R (2006) Bioenergy and agricultural research for development. Bioenergy and Agriculture: Promises and Challenges. pp. 1-2.