This How2Guide for Bioenergy is designed to provide stakeholders from government, industry, and other bioenergy-related institutions with the methodology and tools required to successfully plan and implement a roadmap for bioenergy at the national or regional level. As a guide [...]

L’énergie durable est un élément indispensable pour la réalisation des objectifs de développement économique et de réduction de la pauvreté. Actuellement, près d’une personne sur cinq dans le monde n’a pas accès à des services d’énergie modernes et environ trois [...]

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in anaerobic digestion of farm and household residues in many parts of the world. Smallholder biogas digesters and community biogas plants can be found all throughout Asia, but also progressively in [...]

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The Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) of the World Bank has launched a new Renewable Energy Mapping Initiative. The initiative aims to map renewable energy resources for electricity generation and by this to inform the decision-making process of governments, [...]

Bioenergy development in Tanzania has brought together the energy and agriculture sectors in an unprecedented way. This has created new dynamics and could place pressure on the agricultural sector, which is currently dominated by smallholder production with low yields. The [...]

Modern Bioenergy development, through its environmental and socio-economic impacts,may have positive or negative effects on the four dimensions of food-security: availability; access; utilization, and stability.

The FAOs 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 [...]

In order to ensure that modern bioenergy development is sustainable and that it safeguards food security, a number of good practices can be implemented throughout the bioenergy supply chain. Building on FAO?s work on good practices in agriculture and forestry, [...]

Over the last few years, there has been growing interest in bioenergy, due in part to its potential for rural development and climate change mitigation, and as an energy alternative given the high price of oil. At the same time, [...]