A Compilation of Tools
and
Methodologies to
Assess the
Sustainability
of Modern Bioenergy
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Abstract The FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security
Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project
has compiled a set of thirty relevant and methodologies that can be used assess, during both planning and monitoring,
the main environmental and socioeconomic
impacts of bioenergy. The results can development of a sustainable bioenergy sustainable operations.
Modern bioenergy development, through its environmental
and socio-economic impacts, may have positive or negative
effects (both direct and indirect) on the four dimensions of food
security: availability, access, utilization and stability.
For instance, bioenergy may create new employment and incomegenerating
opportunities, with positive effects on people’s access
to food. At the same time, if good practices are not implemented,
bioenergy production may lead to negative impacts, for example,
on the productive capacity of land or on water availability and
quality, with negative repercussions for food security.
In order to ensure that modern bioenergy development is
environmentally and socially sustainable and that it fosters
development and food security, the
aforementioned impacts need to be assessed
national and operator level by the
relevant stakeholders, during both planning
monitoring phases.
thirty tools and methodologies that
compiled can be used to conduct these
assessments, well as to inform the development of
sustainable bioenergy policies, strategies and investments.
Foreachenvironmentalandsocio-economicdimensionaddressed
by the selected tools and methodologies, an introductory text
about the relevance of the dimension considered for food
security and how it may be impacted by modern bioenergy
development is provided.
For each tool and methodology included in the report under
these dimensions, a description is available, covering the
following aspects: scope; aims and objectives; methodology and
required data and skills; and limitations and applicability to
bioenergy. In addition, an example of the application of the tool/
methodology in the context of bioenergy (if available) or in the
agricultural and energy sectors is presented.
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