Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy: Priorities for Action

doi:10.1111/gcbb.12366

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Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy: Priorities for Action

dc.contributor.author	Kline, Keith L.
dc.contributor.author	Msangi, Siwa
dc.contributor.author	Dale, Virginia H.
dc.contributor.author	Woods, Jeremy
dc.contributor.author	Souza, Glaucia M.
dc.contributor.author	Osseweijer, Patricia
dc.contributor.author	Clancy, Joy S.
dc.contributor.author	Hilbert, Jorge A.
dc.contributor.author	Johnson, Francis X.
dc.contributor.author	McDonnell, Patrick C.
dc.contributor.author	Mugera, Harriet K.
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-12T17:13:53Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-12T17:13:53Z
dc.date.issued	2016-06-14
dc.description.abstract	Understanding the complex interactions among food security, bioenergy sustainability, and resource management requires a focus on specific contextual problems and opportunities. The United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on food and energy security; bioenergy plays an important role in achieving both goals. Effective food security programs begin by clearly defining the problem and asking, ‘What can be done to assist people at high risk?’ Simplistic global analyses, headlines, and cartoons that blame biofuels for food insecurity may reflect good intentions but mislead the public and policymakers because they obscure the main drivers of local food insecurity and ignore opportunities for bioenergy to contribute to solutions. Applying sustainability guidelines to bioenergy will help achieve near‐ and long‐term goals to eradicate hunger. Priorities for achieving successful synergies between bioenergy and food security include the following: (1) clarifying communications with clear and consistent terms, (2) recognizing that food and bioenergy need not compete for land and, instead, should be integrated to improve resource management, (3) investing in technology, rural extension, and innovations to build capacity and infrastructure, (4) promoting stable prices that incentivize local production, (5) adopting flex crops that can provide food along with other products and services to society, and (6) engaging stakeholders to identify and assess specific opportunities for biofuels to improve food security. Systematic monitoring and analysis to support adaptive management and continual improvement are essential elements to build synergies and help society equitably meet growing demands for both food and energy.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Global Change Biology Bioenergy
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/31375
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31375
dc.publisher	Wiley
dc.rights	CC BY 4.0
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject	BIOENERGY
dc.subject	BIOFUELS
dc.subject	ENERGY
dc.subject	FLEX CROPS
dc.subject	FOOD SECURITY
dc.subject	NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.title	Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy	en
dc.title.subtitle	Priorities for Action	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12366 Journal website (version of record)	en
okr.date.disclosure	2019-03-12
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1111/gcbb.12366
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/31375
okr.identifier.report	136148
okr.journal.nbpages	557-76
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Agriculture::Climate Change and Agriculture
okr.topic	Agriculture::Food Security
okr.topic	Energy::Energy and Environment
okr.topic	Energy::Renewable Energy
okr.unit	Development Economics Data Production and Methods (DECPM)
okr.volume	9(3)