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Making sustainable biofuels work for smallholders farmers and rural households: issues and perspectives

  • 01/06/2009
  • FAO

This paper provides an overview of the main risks and opportunities that may arise from liquid biofuel production and use in developing countries. Both the potential environmental impacts and the socio-economic effects of liquid biofuel production and use are discussed, focusing, in particular, on the household-level implications. A few country-levels impacts, which might trickle down to the household level, are discussed as well.7