Biofuels and Rural Poverty

Joy Clancy is Associate Professor in Technology and Development at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on development, energy and poverty.

• 1. Introduction 2. Energy and Rural Poverty 3. The Impacts of Large-scale Biofuel Production in Rural Communities 4. How Does Large-Scale Liquid Biofuel Production Affect Socio-Ecological Systems and Ecosystem Services? 5. Liquid Biofuel Production and Rural Communities’ Food Security 6. Do Liquid Biofuels address Rural Energy and Poverty Issues? 7. Can Biofuels be Made Pro-Poor?

"The book makes a valuable contribution because it is able to exploit a niche of the biofuel debate that is often mentioned but glossed over, that is, the effects that larger-scale production of biofuels may have on the rural poor ... In summary, Joy Clancy’s Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an important contribution to the literature on biofuels, particularly in the aspects of land ownership and access, gender gaps, and equitability in the distribution of benefits to the poor." – Shahnila Islam, International Journal of Water Resources Development"I can recommend the book to those who work in any area of development economics with links to renewable energy. I have worked in the fields of development economics and renewable energy economics, and my opinion is that this book applies well to both." - Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University in BioScience (2013)