Workshop, May
12-13, 2008
Monday, May 12, 8:45 am-5:30 pm
Tuesday, May 13, 8:30 am - 12 pm
Monsanto and Heritage
Rooms, ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center
1101 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
This workshop
explores national and international research and policies on
sustainable biofuels and addresses ways to move forward. Our
goals are to further the understanding of direct and indirect effects of changes in land use and critical social dimensions
of bioenergy, especially impacts on and involvement of poor women
and men in countries around the world.
Sponsors: Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) and Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA/UK)
Organizers: Illinois: Gale Summerfield (WGGP/HCD); Jürgen Scheffran (ACDIS/CABER); and Madhu Khanna (ACE/IGB); Berkeley: David Zilberman (ARE)
With Support from: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP); Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research (CABER); Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS); College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES); European Union Center (EUC); Human and Community Development (HCD); Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE); and International Programs and Studies (IPS).
Monday May 12
8:45-10:30, Monsanto Room Introductions and Opening Presentations
Moderator: Gale Summerfield, Illinois
Welcome: Robert Easter, Dean of ACES at Illinois
Introduction: Stephen P. Long, EBI/Illinois
Aaron Berry, RFA/UK: RFA Review into the Indirect Impacts of Biofuels: Objectives and Purpose
Keith Wiebe, FAO: Biofuels: Implications for Natural Resources and Food Security in Developing Countries
Jürgen Scheffran, Illinois: Integrating Sustainability and Human Security into Bioenergy Futures
10:45-1:00, Monsanto Room Drivers of Direct and Indirect Land-use Changes and their GHG Implications
Madhu Khanna, Illinois: Economics of Biofuel Production: Implications for Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Amani E Elobeid, Iowa State University: The Global Impact of Biofuel Expansion: Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Land Use Changes
Tim Searchinger, Princeton: The Global Impact of Biofuel Expansion: Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Land Use Changes
Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University: The Economics of Land Use Changes from Biofuels Expansion
2:00-4:00, Heritage Room Economics of Biofuels and Food Insecurity Concerns
David Zilberman, UC Berkeley: Income Distribution Implications of Biofuels
Siwa Msangi, IFPRI: Biofuels and the Global Food Economy: Balancing Growth with Human Wellbeing
David Roland-Holst, UC Berkeley: Food and Fuel Security from an Emerging Market Perspective: Tectonic Demand Shifts and Market Tremors
Ben Senauer, University of Minnesota: The Impact of Biofuels on Global Food Markets
4:15-5:30, Heritage Room US Policy and Impacts on Land Use
Harry de Gorter, Cornell University: Welfare Economics of Biofuel Policies
Tom Hertel, Purdue: The Indirect Land Use Impacts of U.S. Biofuel Policies: The Importance of Acreage, Yield, and Bilateral Trade Responses
Wally Tyner, Purdue: Biofuels for All? Understanding the Global Impacts of Multinational Mandates
Tuesday, May 13, Heritage Room
8:30-10:30 Biofuels and the Environment
Kristiina Vogt, Univ. of Washington: Facts and Myths of a Sustainable Carbon Society
Deepak Rajagopal, UC Berkeley: Life Cycle Analysis: What Biofuels Mean to the Environment
Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M: Biofuels and Greenhouse Gases: Economics of Offsets and Leakage
Cliff Singer and Hadi Esfahani, Illinois: Biofuels: What Are We After?
Vincent Camobreco EPA: EPA Biofuel Life Cycle GHG Analysis for the Energy Independence and Security Act
10:45-12:00 Alternative Energy, Human Security and Social Impacts
Irene Tinker, UC Berkeley: From Biomass to Biofuels, From Cookstoves to Cars: Impacts on the World’s Poor
Richenda van Leeuwen, Good Energies: Renewables, Gender and Society
Russ deLucia, S3IDF: The Need for Explicitly Pro-poor Business Models for Sustainable Bio-Energy Development
Gale Summerfield, Illinois: Engendering the Biofuels Debate
Workshop Program in pdf
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WGGP & ACDIS
Working Group on Sustainability, Alternative Energy, and Human
Security. Faculty at Illinois and partner universities
identify and explore key issues in research and policy for these
areas. Human security emphasizes basic needs, sustainbility, and
agency, including gender equity.
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Coming
in 2009
Sustainable
Biofuels and Human Security:
A Comparison of Brazil and East Africa
A
Hewlett Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April
16-17, 2009
This
conference focuses on the human security costs and benefits of increasing
biofuel production and use in Brazil and East Africa. Human security
emphasizes basic needs, sustainability, ang agency, including gender
equity. Key issues will be impacts of rising food prices, control
of income from marketed crops, and residual products. The conference
will bring together leading scholars from universities and NGOs in
several countries to explore the social dimensions of alternative
energy, poverty, and sustainability associated with recent changes
in Brazil and East Africa.
Sponsored
by WGGP, IPS, and others.
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Past
Events
February
14, Thursday, 9:30 a.m.: Roundtable
Discussion on Bioenergy:
Strategies for Mitigating the Food Versus Fuel Controversy,
with special guest Joachim
von Braun, Director General of the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IPPRI), Washington, DC, Room
612, Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), 1206 W. Gregory Drive,
Urbana, Featured Panelists: Hans Blaschek,
Director for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research (CABER),
UIUC; Madhu Khanna, Professor of Agricultural
and Consumer Economics, UIUC; Gale Summerfield,
Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC; Bill
Worek, Director of the Energy Resource Center, UIC. Moderator:
Jurgen Scheffran, CABER. To attend, RSVP to 244-2295
or heap@uiuc.edu before Feb. 11.
MillerComm
Lecture:
Biofuels and the World Food Situation
Joachim
von Braun
Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR),
February 14, 2008, Thursday, 4:00
p.m.
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
sponsored by ACES Global Connect, WGGP and others.
Using
more of the world’s crops as energy sources could threaten
food supplies to those people who are most in need, especially
at prices that are competitive on the world market. Joachim von
Braun assesses opportunities and risks in the development of bioenergy
to discuss the changing role of the United States in assisting
famine intervention worldwide. Dr. von Braun's expertise leading
IFPRI's efforts to provide research-based sustainable solutions
for ending hunger and malnutrition, and his previous position as
director of the Center for Development Research and professor of
Economics and Technological Change at the University of Bonn, Germany,
will bring a unique perspective on a variety of issues to our campus.
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