How to Balance Biofuel and Food Production for Optimal Global Health and Nutrition - The Food Crop-Feed Crop-Fuel Crop Trilemma

Abstract

“Food is basically a net product of an ecosystem, however simplified. Food production starts with a natural material, however modified later. Injections of energy (and even brains) will carry us only so far. If the population cannot adjust its wants to the world in which it lives, there is little hope of solving the food problem for mankind. In that case the food shortage will solve our population problem.” (Steinhardt & Steinhardt, 1974)