In the last few years, demand for ethanol and biodiesel derived from grains, vegetable oils, sugar and other crops or derived products has risen sharply, reaching a level where the entire agricultural sector and its markets are being affected. This is not the headline of an anti-biofuel propagandist. It is the beginning of the...
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The inevitable has happened. The carbon neutral myth has led a corrupt government to rob food from its people. It’s the military junta of Myanmar, the cyclone stricken country! This is a press release by the Moroccan News Portal: BANGKOK (AFP) – Myanmar is struggling to feed its people in the aftermath of Cyclone...
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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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