With the shift from petroleum-based to biomass-based economies, global biomass demand and trade is growing. This trend … voluntary certification standards to ensure that biomass is sustainably produced, food security aspects are hardly addressed as … adequate Food (RtaF), which is applicable in over 100 countries, can be ensured in local biomass production and in …

environmental impact; ecosystem service; biomass; bioenergy; Renewable Energy Directive; certification schemes … to test for biomass production for bioenergy (i) whether certification schemes as major governance mechanism allow a …-scale drivers and impacts of biomass production on the environment. For case studies in the Southeastern US, more than 30 % of the …