Crawford Fund Annual Parliamentary Conferences 

Summary:

Concerns on climate change have led to a dramatic re-assessment of the role of biofuels as a partial replacement of fossil fuels. The conference addressed opportunities of lifting farmers incomes, assessed the downside of production of biofuels and examined the need for international agricultural research to mitigate these downsides and identify options for sustainable production.

Publication date:	February 2008
Author(s):	Alan brown