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Seaweed: The food and fuel of the future?
2020-08-28 00:57:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The farming of seaweed is accelerating as firms exploit its fast growth and green credentials.
Fuel or food? Study sees increasing competition for land, water resources
2016-03-03 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: 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. About 4 percent of the world's agricultural land and 3 to 4 percent of its fresh water are now used for growing biofuels, according to a new study published March 3, 2016 in the Nature journal Scientific Reports. About...
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Rising fossil fuel energy costs spell trouble for global food security
2015-07-06 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Ongoing efforts to feed a growing global population are threatened by rising fossil-fuel energy costs and breakdowns in transportation infrastructure. Without new ways to preserve, store, and transport food products, the likelihood of shortages looms in the future. In an analysis of food preservation and transportation trends published in this week's issue of the journal BioScience, scientists warn that new sustainable technologies will be needed for humanity just to stay even in the arms race against...
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Food or fuel? How about both?
2015-05-30 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the United States, federal mandates to produce more renewable fuels, especially biofuels, have led to a growing debate: Should fuel or food grow on arable land? Recent research shows farmers can successfully, and sustainably, grow both. Russ Gesch, a plant physiologist with the USDA Soil Conservation Research Lab in Morris, Minnesota, found encouraging results when growing Camelina sativa with soybean in the Midwest. Camelina is a member of the mustard family and an emerging biofuel crop....
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Forget Food and Fuel: America's Corn Is Worth $125 Billion to This Industry
2015-02-15 18:11:05| Biotech - Topix.net
Quite a few people have strong opinions about the best use of America's vast corn supply, which totaled over 11.8 billion bushels in 2014 after exports. If you were in charge of deciding the destination for each kernel of corn, how would you allocate production? While the most arguments typically center on the "food vs. fuel" debate, most corn produced in the United States never actually becomes food.
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