Exploratory study on the land area required for global food supply and the potential global production of bioenergy

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 841-861

  Wolf, J ^a   Bindraban, P S ^a   Luijten, J C ^b   Vleeshouwers, L M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Biomass; Energy production; Food production; Food requirement; Global scale

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS POWER; FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0242500444     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(02)00077-X     Document Type: Article

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