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Making integrated food-energy systems work for people and climate

Making integrated food-energy systems work for people and climate

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Date of publication
November 2010
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FAODOCREP:d69d11f6-c65c-59b3-b11e-28e9db6caa81
Pages
136
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Environment and Natural Resources Management Working Paper 45. Reducing “Energy Poverty” is increasingly acknowledged as the “Missing Development Goal”. This is because access to electricity and modern energy sources is a basic requirement to achieve and sustain decent and sustainable living standards. It is essential for lighting, heating and cooking, as well as for education, modern health treatment and productive activities, hence food security and rural development. Yet three billion people – about half of the world’s population - rely on unsustainable biomass-based energy sources to meet their basic energy needs for cooking and heating, and 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity.

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