Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy
Date: 29.6.2008
**Biofuels** can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently **abandoned or degraded agricultural lands**, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University.
Using these lands for energy crops, instead of converting existing croplands or clearing new land, avoids competition with **food production** and preserves carbon-storing forests needed to mitigate climate change.
"Carnegie Institute for Science":[ http://www.ciw.edu/news/global_limits_biomass_energy]
