Technical potentials of biomass for energy services from current agriculture and forestry in selected countries in Europe, The Americas and Asia

New report on the technical potentials of biomases in Europae, The Americas, India and China

The survey confirms a number of previous findings showing that there is a large potential of non-food biomass already present in agriculture and forestry. Furthermore the results also show that in some regions the yield from existing agriculture can be significantly increased by simply applying other agricultural practice and technology.

The technical biomass potential based on current global agriculture and forestry has a considerable potential for increased biomass production by simply just collecting a larger share of the biomass already produced. Key results are:

The total amount of non-food biomass produced from agriculture is 3.3 Gton
There is an almost equal amount of agricultural residues of approximately 0.6 to 0.7G ton from each of the regions Europe, USA, India and China.

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More Information Prof. Claus Feldby, ph. +45 3533-1695, cf@life.ku.dk

Reference: Niclas Scott Bentsen and Claus Felby 2010: Technical potentials of biomass for energy services from current agriculture and forestry in selected countries in Europe, The Americas and Asia. Forest & Landscape Working Papers No. 54-2010, 31 pp. Forest & Landscape Denmark, Frederiksberg