The example of Burkina Faso Food or biofuels. Must we choose?

Auteurs

Marie-Hélène Dabat
marie-helene.dabat@cirad.fr
http://publications.cirad.fr/en/auteur.php?mat=3791
CIRAD, UMR ART-Dev
Joël Blin
http://publications.cirad.fr/en/auteur.php?mat=4783
CIRAD, UPR Biomasse-énergie

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00055

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biofuels, energy policies, fuel crops, food crops, energy generation, food production, food security, economic competition

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Would the Southern countries benefit from producing biofuels? This is the subject of heated debate. For some, biofuels are a factor of development; for others, they compete with food production. Proand anti-biofuel positions are based as much on personal beliefs as on substantiated arguments. The case of Burkina Faso demonstrates how this question can be answered at country level.

Biographies des auteurs

Marie-Hélène Dabat

Marie-Hélène Dabat is a doctor in economics and a researcher at CIRAD (UMR ART-Dev, Joint research unit, Actors, Resources and Territories in Development, https://art-dev.cnrs.fr/). She works in Burkina Faso on processes for integrating agriculture into markets and on the reconfiguration of agri-food chains and energy networks at the interface between sectoral and regional policies.

Joël Blin

Joël Blin is a doctor of organometallic chemistry and a researcher at CIRAD (Internal research unit, Biomass and Energy) on process chemistry. He teaches at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE, https://www.2ie-edu.org/index.php/en/) in Ouagadougou, where he is in charge of the Laboratory for Biomass Energy and Biofuels (LBEB).

Références

Authors' publications

Blin J., Dabat M.-H., Faugère G., Hanff E ., Weisman N., 2008. Opportunités de développement des biocarburants au Burkina Faso. Rapport pour la KFW/GIZ, 166 p. https://www.cirad.fr/nos-recherches/resultats-de-recherche/2008/les-biocarburants-au-burkina-faso-une-approche-pluridisciplinaire

Dabat M.-H., Hanff E., Blin J., 2009. Les biocarburants, une opportunité pour réduire la pauvreté au Burkina Faso ? Troisièmes journées de recherches en sciences sociales, Inra, Sfer, Cirad, 9-11 décembre, Montpellier, France. Montpellier, Cirad. http://agritrop.cirad.fr/554636/

Hanff E., Dabat M.-H., Blin J., 2011. Are biofuels an efficient technology for generating sustainable development in oil-dependent African nations? A macroeconomic assessment of the opportunities and impacts in Burkina Faso. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 15 (5): 2199-2209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.01.014

Other references

Doornbosch R., Steenblik R., 2007. Biofuels: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease ? Round Table on Sustainable Development, OECD, Paris, 11-12 September 2007, 57 p. https://www.oecd.org/sd-roundtable/39385749.pdf

FAO, 2008. The state of food and agriculture 2008. Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunitie. Rome, FAO. ISBN 978-92-5-105980-7. http://www.fao.org/3/i0100e/i0100e00.htm

Gerber N., van Eckert M., Breuer T., 2008. The Impacts of Biofuel Production on Food Prices: a review. ZEF Bonn, Discussion Papers on Development Policy Number 127, 25 p. https://www.zef.de/uploads/tx_zefportal/Publications/zef_dp_127.pdf

Hazell P., Pachauri R.K. (Eds), 2006. Bioenergy and agriculture: promises and challenges. Washington, DC, IFPRI; India, TERI, 2020 Vision Initiative, Focus 14, 28 p. https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/44261/2/focus14.pdf.

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2011-01-01

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Dabat, M.-H., & Blin, J. (2011). The example of Burkina Faso Food or biofuels. Must we choose?. Perspective, (8), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00055

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No 8 (2011): Agrocarburants

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Anglais

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