Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action

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...

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Main Authors:	Kline, Keith L., Msangi, Siwa, Dale, Virginia H., Woods, Jeremy, Souza, Glaucia M., Osseweijer, Patricia, Clancy, Joy S., Hilbert, Jorge A., Johnson, Francis X., McDonnell, Patrick C., Mugera, Harriet K.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Wiley 2019
Subjects:	BIOENERGY BIOFUELS ENERGY FLEX CROPS FOOD SECURITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POVERTY REDUCTION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31375

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spelling	okr-10986-313752021-05-25T10:54:37Z Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action Kline, Keith L. Msangi, Siwa Dale, Virginia H. Woods, Jeremy Souza, Glaucia M. Osseweijer, Patricia Clancy, Joy S. Hilbert, Jorge A. Johnson, Francis X. McDonnell, Patrick C. Mugera, Harriet K. BIOENERGY BIOFUELS ENERGY FLEX CROPS FOOD SECURITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POVERTY REDUCTION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 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. 2019-03-12T17:13:53Z 2019-03-12T17:13:53Z 2016-06-14 Journal Article Global Change Biology Bioenergy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31375 CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 World Bank Wiley Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic	BIOENERGY BIOFUELS ENERGY FLEX CROPS FOOD SECURITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POVERTY REDUCTION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
spellingShingle	BIOENERGY BIOFUELS ENERGY FLEX CROPS FOOD SECURITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POVERTY REDUCTION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Kline, Keith L. Msangi, Siwa Dale, Virginia H. Woods, Jeremy Souza, Glaucia M. Osseweijer, Patricia Clancy, Joy S. Hilbert, Jorge A. Johnson, Francis X. McDonnell, Patrick C. Mugera, Harriet K. Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action
description	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.
format	Journal Article
author	Kline, Keith L. Msangi, Siwa Dale, Virginia H. Woods, Jeremy Souza, Glaucia M. Osseweijer, Patricia Clancy, Joy S. Hilbert, Jorge A. Johnson, Francis X. McDonnell, Patrick C. Mugera, Harriet K.
author_facet	Kline, Keith L. Msangi, Siwa Dale, Virginia H. Woods, Jeremy Souza, Glaucia M. Osseweijer, Patricia Clancy, Joy S. Hilbert, Jorge A. Johnson, Francis X. McDonnell, Patrick C. Mugera, Harriet K.
author_sort	Kline, Keith L.
title	Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action
title_short	Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action
title_full	Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action
title_fullStr	Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action
title_full_unstemmed	Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action
title_sort	reconciling food security and bioenergy : priorities for action
publisher	Wiley
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31375
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Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy : Priorities for Action

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