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Title: LAND USE, LIVELIHOODS AND BIOENERGY: A FARMER PERSPECTIVE


1
LAND USE, LIVELIHOODSAND BIOENERGYA FARMER
PERSPECTIVE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE
BIOENERGY 12-13 October 2006 ? Bonn, Germany
  • Raul Q. Montemayor
  • Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Inc.
    (Philippines)
  • International Federation of Agricultural
    Producers (IFAP)

2
Why Bioenergy?
  • Finite and insecure supply, and increasing prices
    of, fossil fuels
  • Need for environmentally friendly sources of
    energy to arrest climate change and environmental
    degradation

3
Why Farmers?
  • Farmers are part of the problem - agriculture
    accounts for up to 20 of human-induced
    greenhouse effect
  • Farmers are also victims of climate change and
    environmental problems
  • Farmers are part of the solution they are the
    producers of crops and feedstock for biofuels
  • Farmers can benefit as users of energy

4
Bioenergy A General Assessment
  • Generally a positive development for farmers from
    welfare and environmental perspective
  • But limited analysis of long-term economic,
    environmental, social and other effects and
    prospects
  • Farmers cannot afford to take risks and must
    guard against overexpectations, mistaken
    assumptions, and opportunists
  • Bioenergy only part of the answer to energy
    problems

5
LAND USE ISSUES
  • Agro-climatic and related constraints to
    feedstock production
  • Competing uses for land and other natural
    resources for food, feed and fuel
  • Threats to small farm agriculture and rational
    land use
  • Danger of irreversible overexploitation of land
    and natural resources

6
Oil Palm and Forest Cover in Borneo
SOURCE Jason Clay/World Wildlife Foundation
7
Biofuels and Livelihoods
  • Potentials for livelihood generation and rural
    development from bioenergy
  • Need to ascertain immediate and longer-term
    prospects for bioenergy
  • Market restructuring and reaction to bioenergy
  • How can small farmers maximize benefits from
    bioenergy?

8
CONCLUSIONS
  • Plan carefully
  • Minimize risks to farmers and the environment
  • Maximize environmental, livelihood, developmental
    and other benefits from bioenergy
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