Fact Sheet 2:Resilient Cropping - Crops for bioenergy production

Introduction
Substitution of fossil fuels with biofuels has been identified as an opportunity to reduce the agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint in NZ. The availability of high energy waste that can be used for biofuel production may be limited or not available where energy need is required, motivating recent research into the potential for purpose-grown bioenergy crops.