Microalgae as sustainable renewable energy feedstock for biofuel production

SR Medipally, FM Yusoff, S Banerjee… - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The world energy crisis and increased greenhouse gas emissions have driven the search
for alternative and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. According to life …

Food security: contributions from science to a new and greener revolution

J Beddington - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is an intrinsic link between the challenge we face to ensure food security through the
twenty-first century and other global issues, most notably climate change, population growth …

The international political economy of the global land rush A critical appraisal of trends, scale, geography and drivers

L Cotula - The new enclosures: Critical perspectives on corporate …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the past few years, agribusiness, investment funds and government agencies have
been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of farmland in lower income countries. It is …

Food vs. fuel: the use of land for lignocellulosic 'next generation'energy crops that minimize competition with primary food production

J Valentine, J Clifton‐Brown, A Hastings… - Gcb …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review addresses the main issues concerning anticipated demands for the use of land
for food and for bioenergy. It should be possible to meet increasing demands for food using …

The end of the road? Agricultural revolutions in the capitalist world‐ecology, 1450–2010

JW Moore - Journal of agrarian change, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Does the present socio‐ecological impasse–captured in popular discussions of the 'end'of
cheap food and cheap oil–represent the latest in a long history of limits and crises that have …

Resource use efficiency and environmental performance of nine major biofuel crops, processed by first-generation conversion techniques

SC de Vries, GWJ van de Ven, MK van Ittersum… - Biomass and …, 2010 - Elsevier
We compared the production–ecological sustainability of biofuel production from several
major crops that are also commonly used for production of food or feed, based on current …

National‐scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators

DA Bohan, A Boursault, DR Brooks… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Assuring future food productivity and security will require that better use is made of pest
regulation provided by naturally occurring ecological services. However, empirical evidence …

Climate change and the growth of the livestock sector in developing countries

PK Thornton, PJ Gerber - Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global …, 2010 - Springer
Livestock production systems will inevitably be affected as a result of changes in climate and
climate variability, with impacts on peoples' livelihoods. At the same time, livestock food …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of dietary Bacillus subtilis supplementation, as an alternative to antibiotics, on growth performance, intestinal immunity, and epithelial barrier …

I Park, Y Lee, D Goo, NP Zimmerman, AH Smith… - Poultry Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary Bacillus subtilis
supplementation on growth performance, jejunal lesion scores, oocyst shedding, and …

Replacing fossil oil with fresh oil–with what and for what?

AS Carlsson, JL Yilmaz, AG Green… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Industrial chemicals and materials are currently derived mainly from fossil‐based raw
materials, which are declining in availability, increasing in price and are a major source of …