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Bioenergy and food security (BEFS) rapid appraisal user manual - Forest harvesting and wood processing residues
Year of publication 2014
The BEFS Approach supports countries in the design and implementation of sustainable bioenergy policies and strategies, by ensuring that bioenergy development fosters both food and energy security and that it contributes to agricultural and rural development in a climate-smart way.
This manual provides an overview of the BEFS Rapid Appraisal and of the overall BEFS Approach, of which the BEFS Rapid Appraisal is a part.
The BEFS Rapid Appraisal (RA) is a set of easily applicable Excel-based tools that can guide policymakers in obtaining an initial assessment of the in-country bioenergy potential, covering potential feedstock availability, definition of bioenergy pathways of interest, competitiveness of options and potential socioeconomic implications and trade-offs. The BEFS RA allows countries to obtain a first level of assessment of their sustainable bioenergy potential. The BEFS Analytical Framework is the analytical structure of reference for the BEFS Rapid Appraisal. This chapter specifically focuses on forest harvesting and wood processing residues.
Type of Tool
Directrices, manual, material para capacitadores
Directrices, manual, material para capacitadores
Scale of Application
Forest Management Unit
Forest Management Unit
Region
Global
Global
Biome
All
All
Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)
All forest types (natural and planted)
Primary Designated Function
Multiple use
Multiple use
Management Responsibility
All
All