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 …

outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show that this causality is valid also for Somalia at the local level. We find … that livestock price shocks drive drought-induced conflicts through reducing the opportunity costs of conflict … aggravate Somalia's security challenges and calls for decisive action to strengthen both drought and conflict resilience …

dryness and drought during different steps of the vegetation period and extreme heat in the blooming period lead to … considerable losses. In total the calculated sum of losses due to dryness, drought and heat are estimated to approximately 40 Mio …