Biofuels in relation to food and feed crops

For many years, food and feed crops have played a modest role as feedstocks for biofuels used in Dutch transport. Waste materials and residues, on the other hand, are slowly becoming more important as feedstocks in this context. The food and feed crops originate outside the Netherlands: mainly from Europe (wheat, sugar beet, maize) and the United States (maize), and increasingly also from Brazil (sugar cane). They are used solely for the production of bioethanol, a gasoline substitute. Their contribution is also set to remain limited in the future. In the study ‘Biofuels in relation to food and feed crops’, we explore the current situation with regard to the use of biobased feedstocks for biofuels within the transport sector and what proportion of these are accounted for by food and feed crops.