Reconciling food security and bioenergy: priorities for action
Reconciling food security and bioenergy: priorities for action
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DOI：
10.1111/gcbb.12366
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发表时间：
2017-03-01
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Mugera, Harriet K.
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作者：
Kline, Keith L.;Msangi, Siwa;Mugera, Harriet K.
要理解粮食安全、生物能源可持续性和资源管理之间复杂的相互作用，就需要关注具体的背景问题和机遇。联合国2030年可持续发展目标高度重视粮食和能源安全;生物能源在实现这两个目标方面发挥着重要作用。有效的粮食安全方案开始首先要明确界定问题，并问：“可以做些什么来帮助处于高风险中的人？简单的全球分析、头条新闻和漫画将粮食不安全归咎于生物燃料，这可能反映了良好的意图，但误导了公众和政策制定者，因为它们掩盖了当地粮食不安全的主要驱动因素，忽视了生物能源有助于解决问题的机会。将可持续性准则应用于生物能源将有助于实现消除饥饿的近期和长期目标。实现生物能源和粮食安全之间成功协同作用的优先事项包括：（1）用明确一致的术语澄清沟通，（2）认识到粮食和生物能源不需要争夺土地，相反，应该结合起来改善资源管理，（3）投资于技术、农村推广和创新，以建设能力和基础设施，（4）促进稳定的价格，激励当地生产，（5）采用弹性作物，可以为社会提供粮食沿着其他产品和服务，（6）让利益攸关方参与确定和评估生物燃料的具体机会，以改善粮食安全。支持适应性管理和持续改进的系统监测和分析是建立协同作用和帮助社会公平地满足日益增长的粮食和能源需求的基本要素。
Understanding the complex interactions among food security, bioenergy sustainability, and resource management requires a focus on specific contextual problems and opportunities. The United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on food and energy security; bioenergy plays an important role in achieving both goals. Effective food security programs begin by clearly defining the problem and asking, ` What can be done to assist people at high risk?' Simplistic global analyses, headlines, and cartoons that blame biofuels for food insecurity may reflect good intentions but mislead the public and policymakers because they obscure the main drivers of local food insecurity and ignore opportunities for bioenergy to contribute to solutions. Applying sustainability guidelines to bioenergy will help achieve near- and long- term goals to eradicate hunger. Priorities for achieving successful synergies between bioenergy and food security include the following: (1) clarifying communications with clear and consistent terms, (2) recognizing that food and bioenergy need not compete for land and, instead, should be integrated to improve resource management, (3) investing in technology, rural extension, and innovations to build capacity and infrastructure, (4) promoting stable prices that incentivize local production, (5) adopting flex crops that can provide food along with other products and services to society, and (6) engaging stakeholders to identify and assess specific opportunities for biofuels to improve food security. Systematic monitoring and analysis to support adaptive management and continual improvement are essential elements to build synergies and help society equitably meet growing demands for both food and energy.