Jean Ziegler, Switzerland, the United Nations’ independent expert on the right to food, was right to call for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production in October 2007. Ziegler called their motives legitimate, but said that ”the effect of transforming hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tons of maize, of wheat, of beans, of palm...
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http://www.fao.org/rice2004/en/photog.htm “The time will come when people around the world, especially in Asian countries, will suffer from rice shortage if we do not address the threat now”, said Director General Dr. Ronald Cantrell of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) during the celebration of the International Year of Rice held at IRRI campus, University of...
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