Resumen
- The document explores how closing agricultural yield gaps is a key, sustainable strategy to boost liquid biofuel production, crucial for the energy transition. Using data from the Global Yield Gap Atlas and Our World in Data, it quantifies potential increases in production without expanding agricultural land, through agronomic and technological improvements. The methodology blends yield gap analysis with energy supply projections. It concludes that enhancing conventional crops (corn, sugarcane, wheat, soybean, palm, rapeseed) could meet much of future biofuel and sustainable aviation fuel demand, supporting climate goals and food security, whereas advanced feedstocks face technical and economic hurdles. The document calls for public policies focused on productivity and sustainability to achieve effective transport decarbonization without jeopardizing food security or ecosystems.