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Impacts of Bioenergy on Food Security

Guidance for Assessment and Response at National and Project Level

Year of publication 2012

Pages 59

Author Climate, Energy and Tenure Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 97892510715

Series title Environment and Natural Resources Management Working Paper

Series number 2226-6062

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project has developed a set of indicators that be used to assess the impacts of bioenergy on food security at both national and levels. In addition, BEFSCI has identified range of possible responses to these impacts. Modern bioenergy development, through its environmental and socio-economic impacts, may have positive or negative effects on the four dimensions of food security: availability; access; utilization, and stabilit y.

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