PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

By-products of biofuels reduce indirect land-use change

Newsitem | 02-04-2010
Photo of two fields: left yellow rapeseed flowers, right green agricultural land

The cultivation of energy crops on arable land may lead to the displacement of food crops and to indirect land-use change (ILUC) with biodiversity loss and extra greenhouse gas emissions. Some of the energy crops for biofuels deliver feed as by-products, reducing the land use for feed production elsewhere, and thereby substantially reducing these negative indirect effects.

Links