Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Bioenergy in Europe: Experiences and prospects

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dc.creatorHenniges, Oliver
dc.creatorZeddies, Jürgen
dc.date2006
dc.date2024-11-21T09:51:02Z
dc.date2024-11-21T09:51:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:55:37Z
dc.descriptionAlthough Europe is a relatively small producer of ethanol (2.6 percent of world production in 2005), it produces a sizable share of the world’s biodiesel (88 percent of world production in 2005). Production started in the early 1990s (well after Brazil and the United States; see Figure 1), when revisions to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) first allowed farmers to grow nonfood crops for income on set-aside land. Germany began to produce biodiesel from rapeseed, while France undertook production of bioethanol from sugar beet and wheat. Today, Germany is the world’s largest biodiesel producer, with a total existing capacity of more than 2 million metric tons per year, representing more than 5 percent of domestic diesel demand.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/160530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/89620
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHenniges, Oliver; Zeddies, Jürgen. Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Bioenergy in Europe: Experiences and prospects. 2020 Vision Focus Brief. 14(9). International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/Focus14CH9.
dc.subjectbiofuels
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.titleBioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Bioenergy in Europe: Experiences and prospects
dc.typeBrief

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