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·3/6/2009 - Lawmakers seek broader U.S. biomass-for-biofuel list, Reuters
·25/4/2009 - Is Biofuel Policy Harming European Biodiversity?, ScienceDaily
·10/3/2009 - Toxic jatropha shrub fuels Mexico's biodiesel push, Reuters
·3/3/2009 - Biofuelling Confusion, Inter Press Service
·27/1/2009 - UK gets biofuels research centre, BBC
·15/12/2008 - Paraguay: Rural Associations Protest Land Occupations, Inter Press Service
·20/10/2008 - Australia: Farm forestry could drive biofuel for transport, Age
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·Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests
·Seedlings: Agrofuels Special Issue
·Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal
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- 1. Biofuel plantations fuel strife in Uganda Rank: 74%
- strife in Uganda A row over the conversion of rainforests into biofuel plantations is creating a grave political crisis for a country until now seen as a beacon for democracy in Africa. The issue has brought to a head the simmering conflicts between short-term economic gains and the conservation of vital natural resources in the continent. The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, is this week pressing ahead with plans to give a large chunk of one of the country's last protected forests to a...
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- 2. Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate... Rank: 74%
- [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Dec-2008 [ | E-mail Article ] Contact: Lee Poston lee.poston@wwfus.org 202-778-9536 World Wildlife Fund Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate and biodiversity, study finds WASHINGTON DC, December 1, 2008 -- Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at...
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- 3. Forest plantation for biofuels to serve natural forest resources Rank: 74%
- Institute 98: 115-124 Working Papers of the Finnish Forest Research Institute 98 Research and development for sustainable management of semiarid miombo woodlands in East Africa http://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/2008/mwp098.htm Forest plantation for biofuels to serve natural forest resources D. A. Silayo, J. Z. Katani, S. M. S. Maliondo and M. C. T. Tarimo Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box 3000, Morogoro, Tanzania, e-mail...
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- 4. Biofuel plantation threatens Ugandan forests Rank: 73%
- home to hundreds of tree species, rare monkeys and the prized Tit-hylia bird, to sugar producers. The land is the target of the Sugar Corporation of Uganda, which wants to expand production to cash in on the booming global market in sugar for biofuels. Uganda has suffered violent protests in recent weeks over government plans to give at least 17,500 acres of the forest, a nature reserve since 1932, to a sugar cane company. Critics say razing the rainforest could devastate a fragile...
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- 5. ASB News and Events » Paper - Biofuel Plantations on Forested... Rank: 72%
- Group Reports Country Reports Datasets Media Library Search Publications Site Map Contact Translate Français Español Portuguese Peru REDD declaration » « Carbon market could pay poor farmers to adopt sustainable cultivation techniques Paper - Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double Jeopardy for Biodiversity and Climate Posted on Tuesday 2 December 2008 in biodiversity and biofuels and publications BIOFUEL PLANTATIONS ON TROPICAL FORESTLANDS ARE BAD FOR THE CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY,...
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- 6. Degraded grasslands best for palm oil biofuel production, finds... Rank: 72%
- SHARE: | | Degraded grasslands better option for palm oil production relative to rainforests, finds study Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com December 3, 2008 Producing biofuels from oil palm plantations established on degraded grasslands rather than tropical rainforests and peat lands would result in a net removal of carbon from the atmosphere rather than greenhouse gas emissions, report researchers writing in Conservation Biology. The results confirm that benefits to climate from biofuel production...
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- 7. Cameroon: Oil palm plantations fostered by new biofuel market... Rank: 71%
- wrmcast.gif (3121 bytes) Cameroon: Oil palm plantations fostered by new biofuel market harm local livelihoods In Cameroon, like in other African countries such as Ivory Coast or Ghana, the production of oil palm is distributed in 3 sectors: an agro-industrial sector, a village sector controlled by agro-industries, and a small-scale traditional sector. Table 1. Area and production of oil palm plantations in Cameroon in 2002. Surface (ha) Raw production of oil palm (tons) Agro-industrial...
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