1. Sugar plants Search for the use “Food additive” + “Sweetener” in
Ecocrop (
and EcoPort (

2. FAO and involvement with sweeteners.
Involvement is varied and multidisciplinary:
Directly with Technical Cooperation Projects such as TCP/IRA/6613 –
Sugarcane Variety Development (Iran) and TCP/CPR/0066 Development
of Sweet Sorghum for Grain, Sugar, Feed, Fibre and Value-Added
By-products, in the Arid, Saline-Alkaline Regions (China)
Indirectly through diversification due to low prices such as TCP/KEN/2802
- Oil palm promotion (Kenya) and through diversification with Ecocrop
Information management on various other sweetener crops such as
Stevia in EcoPort
Health issues through CODEX Alimentarius with WHO
As energy sources (Gustavo Best)
Bioenergy and agriculture
Bioenergy in pictures
Conversion routes
Impacts
FAO’s Bioenergy Programme
- objectives

3. it is about people, resources and knowledge
This group of pictures is only to recall the variety of bioenergy sources,
technologies and social and scientific implications.
Bioenergy has to do with:
it is about people, resources and knowledge
wood, forests, cooking stoves, rural poverty, high-tech industry, agronomy,
new crop development and selection, land tenure issues, biodiversity
impacts, rural employment

4. Overview of Conversion Pathways (biomass and waste)
Thermochemical
Solid Biomass *
Gasification
DME Dimethyl Ether
CO+H2
Includes:
Herbaceous Perennials e.g. Miscanthus, switchgrass
Woody Perennials Short rotation coppice e.g.willow, poplar
Straw and Forest Residues
Municipal Waste
Methanol
CHP
Pyrolysis
Biooil
F-Tropsch
Biological
Ethanol H2
Fermentation
Sugar-rich
crops
Diesel
e.g.Cane, beet, maize, wheat...
Biodiesel
Mechanical
Oil crops
Extraction
Esterification
Transport
Fuels
e.g. Rape (Canola)
Also waste fats and oils
Biological
Wet Biomass *
CH4
Anaerobic
Digestion
Biogas
Notes:
Combustion not shown
* Includes Municipal waste
Synthesis gas requires catalysts for upgrading
Indicates requirement of reformer
Source: Revised from DG TREN

5. Bioenergy potential is very large, probably the largest
among the renewables
As the potential is mobilized, positive but also negative
impacts could be felt in:
Global and local food security
Global energy security
Rural development
International commodity trading
Climate change mitigation
International collaboration needed to avoid:
Disruption of energy markets, particularly in developing countries
Inequitable social conditions, particularly for farmers
Irreversible impacts on the agriculture and energy sectors
Degraded biodiversity and other natural resources
Bioenergy can play a unique role in a smooth
transition from oil to renewables

6. FAO International Bioenergy Programme Framework
Bioenergy Action
Through International efforts and
National and Regional
Biomass Task Forces
Partnerships
Task 6
Information
Task 1
i-BIS Portal
Task 4
I. Bioenergy Information System
II. Mobilising Bioenergy
Capacity
Task 5
FAO-Bioenergy
Task 7
Potentials
Task 2
Sustainability
Task 3
Wood Energy
Agro Energy
Co-Products

7. OBJECTIVES of Bioenergy Programme
Enhance rural development and food security
Integration of bioenergy into the forestry and agricultural sectors
Promotion of the potential of bioenergy in the energy market
Promotion of bioenergy in climate change mitigation
Promotion of sustainable management of bioenergy resources,
conversion and use
Promote benefits of energy trade to rural producers

8. Ecocrop
Home page
Search
form

9. Search result Data sheet
(part of screen)
Data sheet
(part of screen)

10. Ecocrop to EcoPort and EcoPort to Ecocrop

12. Search By type Search By type form
(part of screen)
Search
By type
form
(part of screen)

13. Keyword profile Search result
(part of screen)
Search result
(part of screen)

15. FAOSTAT sugarcane production and productivity

20. The Islamic Republic of Iran Sugarcane Variety Development
FAO TCP/IRA/6613 (A)

21. Republic of Kenya
Oil palm Promotion
FAO TCP/KEN/2902 (A)

22. Oil palm – a partial alternative for Mauritius?
ha cane; 90% arable land; 40% country area; 2 commodities.
Socio-economics of factory mergers etc.
Population 1.12 million plus tourism; all edible oil imported
FAO discovery of cold-tolerance in oil palm (12-14oC winter)
Red Palm Oil (RPO) is a healthy oil with vitamins A and E
One ha of oil palm = 20 tons FFB = 4 tons RPO
1000 ha = litres vegetable oil / capita / year.