Guillermo José Garrido, Chalmers University of Technology, 2007.
Global demand of biomass, such as food, feed, bio-energy, and fiber for wood and paper, will increase considerably in the near future. Initiatives are needed to assess the best options to meet internal and external demands of biomass-based services and to set plans for future sustainability in Argentina.
Guillermo José Garrido, Chalmers University of Technology, 2007.
Global demand of biomass, such as food, feed, bio-energy, and fiber for wood and paper, will increase considerably in the near future. Initiatives are needed to assess the best options to meet internal and external demands of biomass-based services and to set plans for future sustainability in Argentina.
The food and agriculture system is by far the largest anthropogenic activity in terms of appropriation of land and biological primary production in the country. Therefore, this study intends to contribute to a better understanding of land and biomass requirements for food production. More specifically, the aim of this study is to quantify the land use and biomass flows, in energy and mass terms, of the Argentinean current agri-food system.
The method used in this study is based on Material Flows Analysis (MFA) in which linkages between sources, pathways, and material's fates (or sinks) are estimated, with due regard to the law of matter conservation. For biomass data structuring and linkage, the ALBIO model was used.
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