biomass
The Mountain Partnership are pleased to share with you a new tool for calculating forest biomass and forest carbon that has been developed by one of their members, the Food and Agriculture Organization, jointly with the French Research Centre (CIRAD) and Tuscia University (Italy).
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Forests are natural carbon sink and play an important role in sequestrating the atmospheric carbon into biomass and soil. Estimation of total biomass and soil carbon sequestered in any forest is very important as it gives ecological and economic benefits to the local people. Schima-Castanopsis forests were selected for the study in Palpa district with the objectives of...
During the past several years, biofuels in rich countries have come to be regarded as an important option for reducing consumption of petroleum, which is a main policy goal as a result of recent high oil prices, energy security concerns, and global climate change. The use and development of alternative sources of energy are increasingly encouraged in western countries, and private and...
Bioenergy is derived from biomass - a term that generally refers to any plant or animal matter. Bioenergy in the form of heat or electricity can be produced by using biomass directly as a fuel or by converting it to biogas or liquid biofuels. This factsheet describes the commercial energy uses of biomass.
This report was produced by the Working Group on Biofuels of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management. It provides an overview of the key problems and perspectives towards sustainable production and use of biofuels. It is based on an extensive literature study, taking into account recent major reviews. The focus is on so-called first generation...
With a view to prepare a biomass table of Bambusa nutans subspecies cupulata grown at Belbari, Morang district of Eastern Terai, a total of 150 samples were selected from ninety-eight clumps. Measurements of 15cm diameter at the base (D15), the vertical height of the culm and green weight of the culm, branches and foliage were recorded in the field. The sampled green weight was oven dried in...
The Atacora Mountain range is an important mountain chain in the West African landscape. It extends from northern Benin to Togo and Ghana. More and more cattle are starting to graze on the Beninese part of this range, although there is a critical lack of basic data on its ecological function. The present study assesses the effects of topography and aspect on the grassland biomass production of...
Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. But they may not be a solution to either, and instead are contributing to a third: the current food crisis.
Meanwhile, the danger is that they allow rich-country governments to avoid difficult but urgent decisions about how to reduce consumption of oil, while offering new avenues...
The state of the physical environment is reviewed and the importance of grazing in complex rural livelihoods is assessed in the hitherto little studied Tarija altiplano, Bolivia. Past and contemporary climatic fluctuations have dominated environmental change and are reflected in landforms, soils, vegetation, and land use. Broad fluctuations of dry and wet phases, 200–500 years long,...
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