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## Modern biofuels are a promising long-term renewable energy source which has potential to address both environmental impacts and security concerns posed by current dependence on fossil fuels. Energy crops represent the largest potential source of bioenergy feedstocks but land availability is a crucial precondition for this. On the basis of global bioenergy production potential assessments, Mozambique was identified as one of the promising biomass production regions in tropical Africa. It has capacity to produce up to 6.7 EJ (all energy values for fuels in HHV) of bioenergy annually with moderate introduction of agricultural technology and using strict sustainability criteria (i.e., protecting forests and meeting growing food demand). Essential for realising this potential is rationalisation in agriculture and livestock-raising, and potential increases of up to 7 times current productivities can be achieved with moderate technology introduction. Efficient logistics are also essential to ensure competitive biomass supply to the international market. Using six regions of Mozambique as potential sites of biomass production, this study analysed and compared the cost and energy use of

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Author

Bothwell Batidzirai; André P.C. Faaij; Edward Smeets

Publisher

Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0973-0826)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)