Table 1 Overview of the considered crops within the agricultural suitability.

From: Global inventory of suitable, cultivable and available cropland under different scenarios and policies

Food, feed, fiber and first-generation bioenergy crops

Second-generation bioenergy crops

Barley

Potato

Sugarbeet

Jatropha

Cassava

Rapeseed

Sugarcane

Miscanthus

Groundnut

Rice

Sunflower

Switchgrass

Maize

Rye

Summer wheat

Reed canary grass

Millet

Sorghum

Winter wheat

Eucalyptus

Oilpalm

Soy

 

Willow

  1. Included are staple crops of global importance, such as maize, wheat and rice, that provide more than half of global calorie intake, but also more regionally important food crops, such as millet or cassava. Furthermore, we include the main first- and second-generation bioenergy crops to capture the trends in political support of biofuels and the emerging bioeconomy.
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