Biofuel craze is sweeping across the world. Stop it!
Diverting Food to Fuel
More than ever, grain is beeing used for biofuels rather than food consumptiom.
This trend started to take off in 2004; by 2010, 6 percent (by 2000, 1 percent) of all grain went into making biofuels (see Figure) - The diversion is a contributing factor in rising food prices. (The grains factored in here include barley, corn, millet, mixed grains, oats, mmilled rice, rye sorghum, wheat and dorum wheat.)
Sources... United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
Article(s)...
NYT
April 6, 2011
Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
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This year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that its index of food prices was the highest in its more than 20 years of existence. Prices rose 15 percent from October to January alone, potentially “throwing an additional 44 million people in low- and middle-income countries into poverty,” the World Bank said.
Soaring food prices have caused riots or contributed to political turmoil in a host of poor countries in recent months, including Algeria, Egypt and Bangladesh, where palm oil, a common biofuel ingredient, provides crucial nutrition to a desperately poor populace. During the second half of 2010, the price of corn rose steeply — 73 percent in the United States — an increase that the United Nations World Food Program attributed in part to the greater use of American corn for bioethanol.
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Related Article(s)...
NYT
May 7, 2007
How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
By C. FORD RUNGE and BENJAMIN SENAUER
C. Ford Runge is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law and Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Benjamin Senauer is Professor of Applied Economics and Co-director of the Food Industry Center at the University of Minnesota.
Wiki(s)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel
More than ever, grain is beeing used for biofuels rather than food consumptiom.
This trend started to take off in 2004; by 2010, 6 percent (by 2000, 1 percent) of all grain went into making biofuels (see Figure) - The diversion is a contributing factor in rising food prices. (The grains factored in here include barley, corn, millet, mixed grains, oats, mmilled rice, rye sorghum, wheat and dorum wheat.)
Sources... United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
Article(s)...
NYT
April 6, 2011
Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
[...]
This year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that its index of food prices was the highest in its more than 20 years of existence. Prices rose 15 percent from October to January alone, potentially “throwing an additional 44 million people in low- and middle-income countries into poverty,” the World Bank said.
Soaring food prices have caused riots or contributed to political turmoil in a host of poor countries in recent months, including Algeria, Egypt and Bangladesh, where palm oil, a common biofuel ingredient, provides crucial nutrition to a desperately poor populace. During the second half of 2010, the price of corn rose steeply — 73 percent in the United States — an increase that the United Nations World Food Program attributed in part to the greater use of American corn for bioethanol.
[...]
Related Article(s)...
NYT
May 7, 2007
How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
By C. FORD RUNGE and BENJAMIN SENAUER
C. Ford Runge is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law and Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Benjamin Senauer is Professor of Applied Economics and Co-director of the Food Industry Center at the University of Minnesota.
Wiki(s)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel
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