The biofuel debate - Status quo and research needs to meet multiple goals of food, Fuel and ecosystem services in the tropics and subtropics

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Buerkert, Andreas ^a   Schlecht, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon fixation; Ecological Carbon Payback Time (ECPT); Land ownership; Marginal lands; Water use

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749120777     PISSN: 16129830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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