RFA: Indirect Land Use Debate Rages On

Grainnet.com
Date Posted: April 15, 2009

As more and more experts look into the unproven and nascent science of indirect land use changes (ILUC) resulting from biofuels expansion, a growing chorus of researchers and scientists is raising serious concerns about the validity of early efforts to quantify ILUC effects.

In the recent critique (“Biofuels and indirect land use change effects: the debate continues”) of the work done by environmental advocate and lawyer Timothy Searchinger and others that sparked the ILUC debate one year ago, two professors from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia roundly criticize the methodology and questionable assumptions on which Searchinger’s exaggerated conclusions were based.

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