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Study: Growing Bioenergy Crops on Abandoned Farmland Could Meet 8% of Worlds Current Energy Need

Posted on June 30, 2008

Growing biofuel crops on the 385-472 million hectares of once-productive abandoned agricultural land globally could meet up to 8% of the world's current energy demand, according to a recent report from researchers at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science. Their work was published online 25 June in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.Planting these crops would not take away land now used to grow food and would not contribute to deforestation.Our results showed that if you used all these abandoned agricultural lands, you might obtain up to 8 percent of current...

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