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Biomass for Fuel and Food

A Parallel Necessity

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Section I published in Volume 3 of this series dealt with aspects of biomass energy: its often unrecognized importance, particularly for rural peoples in developing countries; its use by and potential for industrial countries; the part it can and could play in the replacement of liquid fossil fuels; and the problems and potential for production of biomass fuels. We showed that for many people, acquiring fuels is now a serious problem, and we argued that scarcity of biomass energy is potentially a greater long term threat to their well-being than shortage of food. We now attempt to justify this view.

Section I of this article (“Biomass for Energy”) was published in Volume 3 (1986) of this book series. This article contains the last two sections of the review — Section II, “Biomass for Food”; and Section III, “Biomass for Food and Fuel.”

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