Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also
carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various …

Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to
society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

The agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for approximately
25% of anthropogenic GHG emissions mainly from deforestation and agricultural emissions …

'Flex crops' such as corn, oil palm and soy are understood to have multiple, interchangeable
uses; they have material flexibility. We propose that discursive flexibility–the ability to …

The biofuel crop Jatropha curcas has been promoted in develo** countries as a means of
improving the livelihoods of rural populations. In Mexico, despite the initially assumed …

There was a heightened global interest in large-scale Jatropha cultivation for the past few
decades, and this incited investment toward the crop in many develo** countries. Many …

Pongamia (Millettia pinnata) has recently gained attention as a novel biofuel feedstock.
However, yield levels and dynamics of this largely undomesticated species remain poorly …

Fossil fuels dominate the current energy and chemicals' supply and this leads to a rapid
growth in global greenhouse gas emissions. One mitigation option is using renewable …

Liquid biofuel production has been widely promoted as a rural development strategy in the
South. Yet, the development of biofuel value chains faces many context-specific challenges …