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 …

Increasing global energy demands are leading towards the production of bio-alcohols from
food crops, subsequently posing detrimental consequences in terms of food insecurity …

As China ramped-up coal power capacities rapidly while CO2 emissions need to decline,
these capacities would turn into stranded assets. To deal with this risk, a promising option is …

Being a massive grower of sugarcane, China could use this crop in the biofuel sector.
However, this critical aspect of the sugarcane crop in China has not been extensively …

Globally, the share of renewable energy is limited to 19% of the total energy consumption.
Out of which, 9.3% is shared by traditional biomass. In India, the installed capacity of energy …

Abstract Development of fuel ethanol is one of the important strategies to ensure energy
security, many countries and regions of the world have promoted fuel ethanol industry …

While the size and speculative nature of land transactions in the wake of energy, food and
climate crises have surprised observers, the reasons for partial implementation of many land …

Bioenergy can be a promising solution to the energy, food and environment trilemma in
China. Currently this coal-dependent nation is in urgent need of alternative fuels to secure …

Feeding 9 billion by 2050 is one of major challenges for researchers. Use of diversified
crops, nonconventional water resources and rehabilitation of marginal lands are alternate …

The increasing demand for biomass for the production of bioenergy is generating land-use
conflicts. These conflicts might be solved through spatial segregation of food/feed and …