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Annex II
THE IMPACTS OF AGROFUELS PRODUCTION ON THE
RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD
1.
In the broad sense of the expression, agrofuels include all biofuels produced out of
agriculture and livestock products. The agrofuels that have been the object of tremendous
increase in demand and also of fierce debates in recent years, i.e. bioethanol and biodiesel for
transportation (circled in both Diagram 1 and Figure 1), are only a fraction of agrofuels, and as
Figure 1 shows, they constitute a tiny fraction of biofuels in general. The debate on liquid
biofuels for transportation should not obviate all the other non-transport or stationary uses of
biofuels, including biogas, firewood and even bioetanol and biodiesel for stationary energy in
rural areas. In this paper, for the ease of convenience unless specified otherwise, the term
agrofuels refers to liquid biofuels used for transport, i.e. bioethanol and biodiesel.
Diagram 1: Biofuels by source and types62
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Courtesy of Olivier Dubois (FAO).
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