Growing Energy, Growing Food, Growing Concerns

Increasingly, biofuels and bioenergy are being created from the biomass harvested from America's rural landscapes. There is increasing concern about whether our agricultural lands can provide our energy without jeopardizing food security, environmental quality, the climate or public health. This presentation considers impacts and tradeoffs in our current farming system between food and fuel production on these critical environmental and human health considerations, and assesses how health, energy, and agricultural policies and markets can help promote integrated and sustainable farming systems that provide multiple environmental and climate benefits while producing the food and fuel needed.