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Global greenhouse gas implications of land conversion to biofuel crop cultivation in arid and semi-arid lands – Lessons learned from Jatropha

2013-11-01

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Biofuels are considered as a climate-friendly energy alternative. However, their environmental sustainability is increasingly debated because of land competition with food production, negative carbon balances and impacts on biodiversity. Arid and semi-arid lands have been proposed as a more sustainable alternative without such impacts. In that context this paper evaluates the carbon balance of potential land conve...

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Literature Corpus work: 87ab94b6-fa47-502b-93b2-855a9d4cadb9
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.06.015

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