CONTEXT The potential of marginal lands to improve food security, support bioenergy
production or ecosystem services has globally got a lot of attention. Defining agricultural …

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

Advanced biofuels are among the available options to decarbonise transport in the short to
medium term especially for aviation, marine and heavy-duty vehicles that lack immediate …

Agriculture is being challenged to provide food, and increasingly fuel, for an expanding
global population. Producing bioenergy crops on marginal lands—farmland suboptimal for …

Giant reed (Arundo donax) and Miscanthus spp. were tested to evaluate their tolerance and
phytoremediation capacity in soils contaminated with heavy metals. Giant reed was tested …

The use of biomass as feedstock for energy is often associated with increased claims on
land, competition with food production and impacts on other ecosystem services. Studies on …

An analysis of the development of bioenergy has revealed that competing claims on
biomass and agricultural land for its production are perceived as major obstacles to …

This study deals with approaches for a social-ecological friendly European bioeconomy
based on biomass from industrial crops cultivated on marginal agricultural land. The …

Challenges to global food security are:(i) population increase from 7 billion in 2011 to 9.2
billion in 2050,(ii) climate change,(iii) soil degradation by erosion, salinization, organic …

The growing bioeconomy will require a greater supply of biomass in the future for both
bioenergy and bio-based products. Today, many bioenergy crop** systems (BCS) are …