The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO) has announced the development of a “decision-support tool” to help countries derive the benefits of biofuel industry development, without putting food security at risk. According to the FAO press release, the tool is an “analytical framework” and can allow governments venturing into biofuels to “calculate the effect of their [biofuel-related] policy decisions on the food security of their populations”. The initial step for using the framework involves the establishment of a “bioenergy scenario”, where the biofuel policy options and associated strategies are defined. The framework allows a five-step assessment of (1) technical biomass potential, (2) biomass production costs, (3) the economic bioenergy potential, (4) macro-economic consequences, and (5) national and household-level impact and consequences on food security. The analytical framework which uses mathematical models like “Quickscan” from the Copernicus Institute (at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands) and “COSIMO” from FAO, will be field-tested in Peru, Thailand and Tanzania before release..