[SustainableTompkins] Update on the Biofuel Debate

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

International Programs / CALS   announcement

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CIIFAD Forum Presentation

Agroecological  Perspectives for Sustainable Development Seminar Series

TOPIC: Update on  the Biofuel Debate

PRESENTER: John Duxbury

DATE: Wednesday,  February 7, 2007
TIME: 12:20 - 1:10 p.m.
PLACE: 135 Emerson  Hall

Dr. John Duxbury is a professor of soil science and international  
agriculture. His current research interests include enhancing adoption of  agricultural 
technologies in South Asia, strategies to increase resource use  efficiency in 
rice based cropping systems, connecting agriculture to human  health, impacts 
of arsenic contamination on food system flows of arsenic and  bringing 
scientific honesty to analysis of the benefits of  biofuels.

Establishing the value of biofuels has been the subject of much  debate, 
especially for ethanol production from corn grain in the USA. This  seminar 
evaluates the value of a range of biofuels from an absolute energetics  basis, 
illustrates the comparative advantage of Brazil for ethanol production,  attempts 
to provide a perspective on rational biofuel choices for the USA, and  
discusses some potential conflicts between farming for fuel and farming for  food.

COSPONSORS: Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture  and 
Development, the Department of Crop and  Soil Sciences, and the  Department of 
Natural Resources

For more information contact Lucy Fisher,  255-2920, lhf2 at cornell.edu or 
Louise Buck leb3 at cornell.edu.


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