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CT: The development of agro-energy in recent years has been one of rapid growth in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. However, it may be at the price of unsustainable plantations for bioethanol and biodiesel. Rather than using non-food agricultural products, first generation biofuels are made from crops that otherwise could be used as animal feed or human food. With the growing global population, new methods of obtaining agro-energy that do not cause food shortages and resource degradation must be developed. The second generation of agrofuels will feed on agricultural residues and forest biomass and may have fewer trade-offs.

S: ORCA – http://www.fao.org/organicag/oa-portal/orca-research/research-fields/orca-topics/orca-topics-agro-energy/es/ (last access: 22 November 2016)

N: 1. From agro- (which means “pertaining to agriculture or cultivation,” from Greek and form of agros “field”) and energy (thiw word appears at the 1590s, “force of expression,” from Middle French énergie (16c.), from Late Latin energia and from Greek energeia which means “activity, action, operation”).
2. The energy derived from purposely-grown crops, and from agricultural and livestock by-products, residues and wastes.
3. His agroenergy comes in the form of fuels: solid fuels (straw, bagasse, etc.); liquid fuels (bioethanol, biodiesel, BtL fuels); gaseous fuels (biogas from methanisation, syngas, hydrogen).
4. Agroenergy is an energy that, when produced through sustainable farming methods, is renewable and carbon neutral. It can, however, cause certain problems: competition with food production and a risk of higher prices for food products, accompanied by malnutrition and famine; deterioration of the environment by intensive farming and its consequences in terms of pollution, soil exhaustion, erosion and reduction of biodiversity.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=energy (last access: 22 November 2016). 2. TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/lsxQE2 (last access: 1 December 2016). 3. FS- http://www.futura-sciences.us/dico/d/sustainable-development-agroenergy-50000939/ (last access: 23 November 2016). 4. FS- http://www.futura-sciences.us/dico/d/sustainable-development-agroenergy-50000939/ (last access: 23 November 2016).

GV: agro-energy

S: TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/lsxQE2 (last access: 1 December 2016)

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CR: biomass, biomass energy, energy.