Sustainability of biogas and cassava-based ethanol value chains in Viet Nam

Sustainability of biogas and cassava-based ethanol value chains in Viet Nam
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9251305048

This report presents the results of the implementation of the GBEP indicators to two key bioenergy pathways in Viet Nam: cassava-based ethanol and biogas at household, farm and industrial levels. The environmental, social and economic impacts of these two pathways are discussed, and recommendations are provided on how to improve their sustainability, efficiency and competitiveness. This work provided Viet Nam with an understanding of how to establish the means of a long-term, periodic monitoring of its domestic bioenergy sector based on the GBEP indicators. Such periodic monitoring would enhance the knowledge and understanding of this sector and more generally of the way in which the contribution of the agricultural and energy sectors to national sustainable development could be evaluated. The implementation of the GBEP indicators in Viet Nam also provided a series of lessons learnt about how to apply them as a tool for sustainable development and how to enhance their practicality.

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century
Author: Gregory J. Scott
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0896296350

Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies

Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies
Author: A. P. J. Mol
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739106082

Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies is an important collection of essays which examines environmental performance and the transition to market economies, particularly in China and Vietnam. A comprehensive assessment of the state of industrial environmental management, this informative volume looks at the movement for cleaner production from many perspectives, analyzing its historical roots, its political influences, its implementation, and its economic and technological feasability.

The Sweetpotato

The Sweetpotato
Author: Gad Loebenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2009-03-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402094752

In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.