Table 2 Water and land needed to produce one TJ of energy used in the top consuming countries during the year 2013, and the number of people that could be fed by the associated bioethanol crops, based on the diets of the consumer (1) and producer (2) countries, respectively.

From: The water-land-food nexus of first-generation biofuels

  

103 m3/TJ

ha/TJ

cap1/TJ

cap2/TJ

Bioethanol

USA

76

10

123

127

Brazil

60

5

57

56

Canada

99

16

134

126

China

125

20

162

142

Germany

61

10

105

116

UK

89

12

112

112

France

42

7

97

113

India

122

7

112

107

Colombia

59

19

72

49

Sweden

79

14

110

110

Spain

94

13

145

140

Poland

64

16

116

116

Netherlands

118

19

114

114

Italy

73

13

126

130

Mean

82

13

113

111

Weighted mean

74

9

106

108

Biodiesel

USA

88

32

76

88

Brazil

105

49

97

97

France

78

18

71

79

Germany

82

31

75

87

Italy

88

25

76

90

China

72

51

102

109

Thailand

86

10

145

145

Spain

111

14

90

134

Poland

69

22

84

84

UK

103

11

79

128

Argentina

103

64

89

89

Sweden

79

18

80

87

Austria

87

19

71

79

Colombia

80

14

122

141

Indonesia

109

10

182

145

Turkey

93

23

111

116

Belgium

83

19

72

86

Portugal

105

48

75

84

Netherlands

95

16

78

117

Canada

104

30

85

98

Peru

68

9

161

145

Denmark

91

11

69

103

Czech Rep

100

22

87

87

Finland

92

20

72

87

Romania

138

38

82

92

Greece

102

35

84

101

Malaysia

98

9

120

145

Slovakia

100

25

100

102

India

104

21

189

150

Mean

91

24

95

106

Weighted mean

90

29

89

99

  1. The weighted means is calculated with respect to the amounts of energy consumed by each country.