The Biopact website (URL above) presents some highlights of the report by the Worldwatch Institute entitled “Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture”. The report is coordinated by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and is published by EarthScan. The report mentions the “poverty alleviation potential bio-based energy and products”. By proper policy implementation, the “global biofuel transition” could benefit the world’s poor, especially in the rural areas, through “enhanced incomes and reduced food insecurity”. In the long term, the potential benefits of biofuels lie in the use of “non-food feedstocks”, particularly cellulose-rich bioenergy corps like perennial grasses. The report recommends policies for (1) protection of natural resources; (2) accelerated “transition to cellulosic technologies”; and (3) “sustainable international biofuels trade”..