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		<title>Global Food Shortage Linked to Biofuel Use &#8211; Part III &#8211; U.S. Backlash</title>
		<link>http://climatepatrol.net/2008/05/24/global-food-shortage-linked-to-biofuel-use-part-iii-us-backlash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 19:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Diouf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 abstract of a paper on Biofuels and Commodity Markets &#8211; Palm Oil Focus, by P. Thoenes from the Commodities and Trade Division of FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations). The reason why I bring in palm oil here is the following statement in the FAO paper: &#8220;There is general consensus that &#8211; in the absence of subsidies &#8211; palm oil is by far the most competitive vegetable oil for the production of biodiesel.&#8221; Even without biodiesel, the demand for palm oil has gone up sharply and took up about 50% of the global vegetable oil market in 2005, partly by cutting down rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia. According to the FAO paper, first studies have been conducted to calculate country and feedstock specific threshold prices indicating at which level of fossil fuel prices biofuel production becomes economically viable: based on two such studies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Food Shortage Linked to Biofuel Use (Part II Myanmar!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inevitable has happened. The carbon neutral myth has led a corrupt government to rob food from its people. It&#8217;s the military junta of Myanmar, the cyclone stricken country! This is a press release by the Moroccan News Portal:  BANGKOK (AFP) &#8211; Myanmar is struggling to feed its people in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis &#8212; in part because the regime has been forcing some farmers to stop growing rice in a plan to produce biofuel instead. On the AFP website, the same paragraph is hidden amidst the rambling how the junta refuses foreign aid pretending they have everything under control. What control? The entire scandal unfolds as reported by this Morrocan news agency: Read about the Myanmar biofuel here.]]></description>
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		<title>Global food shortage linked to biofuel use (part I)</title>
		<link>http://climatepatrol.net/2008/04/22/global-food-shortage-linked-to-biofuel-use/</link>
		<comments>http://climatepatrol.net/2008/04/22/global-food-shortage-linked-to-biofuel-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jean Ziegler, Switzerland, the United Nations&#8217; 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 &#8221;the effect of transforming hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tons of maize, of wheat, of beans, of palm oil, into agricultural fuel is absolutely catastrophic for the hungry people.&#8221; The world price of wheat doubled in one year and the price of corn quadrupled, leaving poor countries, especially in Africa, unable to pay for the imported food needed to feed their people, he said. And poor people in those countries are unable to pay the soaring prices for the food that does come in, he added. &#8221;So it&#8217;s a crime against humanity&#8221; to devote agricultural land to biofuel production, Ziegler said at a news conference. &#8221;What has to be stopped is &#8230; the growing catastrophe of the massacre (by) hunger in the world,&#8221; he said. As an example, he said, it takes 510 pounds of corn to produce 13 gallons of ethanol. That much corn could feed a child in Zambia or Mexico for a year, he said. Benjamin Chang, a spokesman for the [...]]]></description>
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