Biofuels and impacts on land use

Biofuels sit at the intersection of several policy areas including agriculture, energy and transport. Brazil, the EU and the United States have been developing biofuel industries for the purpose of energy security for several decades. Environmental rhetoric has only been invoked more recently.

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