Dr. William Dar, the Director-General, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, (ICRISAT) describes smart biofuel crops as “those that ensure food security, contribute to energy security, provide environmental sustainability, tolerate the impacts of climate change on shortage of water and high temperatures, and increase livelihood options”. He has urged developing countries “to adapt the development of smart crops for biofuels to ensure food and environmental security”. In its “BioPower” program, ICRISAT is promoting sweet sorghum, as a smart biofuel crop for biofuel ethanol. Among sweet sorghum’s advantages as a bioenergy feedstock are its: (1) high sugar yield (in stalks) for ethanol production, (2) low water and fertilizer requirement, and (3) ability to thrive in marginal soils. Sweet sorghum is also said to have a “strong pro-poor advantage” because of it’s “triple product potential”: (1) grain (for food security), (2) juice (for ethanol), and bagasse (crushed stalk after juice extraction, used as livestock feed/power generation). Ethanol from sweet sorghum is also said to have good energy and carbon balances..