Lucia Goldfarb
Lucia Goldfarb
PhD Researcher in International Development Studies, Utrecht University and regular consultant of the Agrarian Justice team at TNI
Lucia Goldfarb received an MA in Development Studies with a minor in Environment and Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague in 2006. In 2007-2008 she joined TNI as a Next Generation Scholar. Formerly co-coordinator of the CREPE-TNI agrofuels project, Goldfarb regularly consults with TNI's Agrarian Justice team, is a founding member of the Dutch section of the Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN-Netherlands) where she co-authored a report on agrofuels in Brazil in 2008, and is currently a PhD Researcher in International Development Studies at the University of Utrecht.
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Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining what agriculture? For what European bio-economy?
February 2011
The Europe 2020 strategy's promotion of resource-efficient technologies and market incentives as the solution for sustainable agriculture is contradicted by experience where techno-fixes and market pressures have increased overall demand on resources.
TNI -Sponsored land grabbing side event at the FAO Food Security World Committee session, Rome 2010
November 2010
Leading academics discuss key issues regarding 'the global land grab' and how this is linked critically to official policies, like 'Responsible Agricultural Investment' (RAI), considering how small farmers are being dispossessed and incorporated into the agro-food-feed-fuel complex.
Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique
July 2010
EU biofuels policy is based on the assumption that it will lead to greenhouse gas savings, energy security and rural development, however in-depth research in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique reveals fundamental contradictions between EU policy assumptions and practices in the real world.
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Agrofuel Crops
April 2010
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in developing agrofuels on a large scale as an alternative to fossil fuel. EU biofuels policy, in particular, assumes that the environmental impacts associated with agrofuels production will be largely beneficial. This study questions such optimistic assumptions.
