biofuels

The future is bio-based: principles for a European bioeconomy in a global development context

Feature / Bioeconomy offers the prospect of greener and more inclusive development. It's an opportunity to decarbonize, and to bypass mainstream industrialization.

Impacts of biofuel crop production in southern Africa: Land use change, ecosystem services, poverty alleviation and food security

Other publication / Biofuels offer clear environmental benefits over fossil and biomass household fuels – but how do they affect the wider lives of farmers and users?

IMARA

Project / The IMARA program aimed to increase the resilience of marginalized households to climate-change-related shocks.

Using an ecosystem services perspective to assess biofuel sustainability

Journal article / The introductory essay to a special issue of Biomass and Bioenergy, edited by Francis X. Johnson and others.

Special issue: using an ecosystem services perspective to assess biofuel sustainability

Journal article / This special issue fills research gaps on sustainability implications of liquid biofuel production, applying an ecosystem services perspective.

Living with smoke

Feature / Get a glimpse of what it means to live with air pollution in Mukuru informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.

Bioeconomy trends in developing countries

Past event / This session brings views of bioeconomy, emphasising a global perspective and aiming to connect developments in the Global South to those in the EU.

Boosting the bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea region

Feature / SEI Tallinn and partners kick off a project to build bioeconomy clusters in rural areas of the region.

New SEI initiative aims to help the bioeconomy take root in the global South

Feature / Ivar Virgin talks about the new SEI Initiative on Governing Bioeconomy Pathways and his role in the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2018.