ACE Conference Speakers Say More Research Needs to Be Done on Indirect Land Use

Biofuels Journal
Date Posted: August 14, 2009
by Jerry Perkins, BioFuels Journal Editor

Speakers at the 2009 American Coalition for Ethanol Conference and Trade Show in Milwaukee, WI, Aug. 11-13, said more research needs to be done before the impact of Indirect Land Use (ILU) can be accurately measured.

Prof. Wally Tyner of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University said the concept of Indirect Land Use argues that corn used to make ethanol means more crops will have to be grown in other parts of world and that will lead to deforestation of the rain forest and more greenhouse gas emissions.

Before such sweeping conclusions can be made, Tyner said, more study needs to be done on ILU.

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