Essays about: "agricultural frontier"

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  1. 11. Biofuels: Environmental benefits or trade-offs? The South-North perspective on biofuel business, trade and environment. A case study from Argentina on soy biodiesel

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Angelica Erlandsson; [2007]
    Keywords : Biofuels; Argentina; soy biodiesel; bioethanol; carbon neutrality; climate change; South-North; biofuel market; sustainable indexes; deforestation; agricultural frontier; greenhouse gases; World Trade Organization; GMOs; Environmental studies; Miljöstudier; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis describes the global development of biofuel trade from a South-North perspective, with a particular focus on the view fom the global South on the case of soybean bio-diesel from Argentina. The overall question of the thesis focuses on the balance between benefits and trade-offs of biofuels from an environmental perspective, it also considers economic and social dimensions. READ MORE