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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

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Mangrove Palm, Nypa fruticans

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This chapter focuses on the ‘food vs fuel’ controversy around biofuel production, demonstrating ways in which the two can be supportive rather than in conflict. This competition between food and fuel can be avoided, in particular by using crops for which their use in the human food chain is not in conflict with their use as a sources of biofuels. Many biofuel production methods can be configured to produce food as well as fuel. Also, many food production methods can be configured to produce bioenergy as well as food. These together are known as ‘Integrated Food-Energy Systems’ (IFES). As a biofuel crop, the mangrove palm Nypa fruticans has the distinction of being the only sugar palm that grows in saline environments, since it is the only mangrove species that is also a palm tree. This makes it suitable for areas where food crops would not be grown, avoiding the greatest arguments against liquid biofuel production.

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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118350553.ch8
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