During the last years, the renewable energy strategy of the European Union (EU) and the proposed policies and … regulations, namely the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), have been heavily discussed among scientific circles and various …

regards to land competition and sustainability assurance. There has been growing concern on taking arable land out of food … production and allocating its use to production of energy crops. Experience gained with the establishment of Jatropha hedges … developing rural industries and utilizing bio fuel energy. However, establishing oil milling plants as a strategy to provide …

Fossil fuels as the main energy source of every country now predicted will be ended no more than 40 years. Therefore … the world. However, after one decade since the Government of Indonesia launched the energy Policy in 2006, appears to be … traditional which can be seen from the lifestyle and their energy consumption. This paper provides in detail a review of several …

emissions. Feedstock for first generation biofuels and food crops both use arable land andmay compete for it. Also, fuel is an … input for the production and transport of food. The purpose of thispaper is to quantify with empirical data how these two … setting allows an expansion ofbiofuel production to increase food production by lowering costs of production and transport …

This paper provides microeconomic evidence on food security impacts of privately organized biofuel outgrower schemes in … endogenous switching regressions to analyze the impact on food security. Food security (as measured by a ?food gap?) and food … caloric intake is significantly better in households producing castor beans. ?Fuel? and ?food? are complements rather than …

The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the … current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in … goods and subject to increased public accountability to re-ensure the global food supply. Second, the policy-induced link …