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- Starving Ethiopian farmers rue biofuel choice
... work to be done... Starving Ethiopian farmers rue biofuel choice SODO, ETHIOPIA: With a slight reeling in his gait, ... shortages. But since swapping from a subsistence to a biofuel crop several months ago, his once treasured source of income has dried ...
blog entry - Raj - 5 Nov 2008 - 08:15 - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Biofuel and Land-Grabbing in Africa
... Release Summary This is the story of how a Norwegian biofuel company took advantage of Africa’s traditional system of communal ... and policy-makers to be wary of the promises made by biofuel investors and the disasters that their land grabbing may bring. Biofuel ...
blog entry - Raj - 22 Apr 2008 - 01:51 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Brazil's Biofuel Slaves
Here's a story well worth reading, one that gives the lie to the 'biofuels boom' promoted by, among others, The World Bank as a balm to poverty. As if further evidence were needed. Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutte ...
blog entry - Raj - 23 Apr 2007 - 21:21 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Rush to Biofuel Market Bypasses Female Farmers
Not for nothing is gender one of the most frequent tags here at Stuffed and Starved. The modern food system is tilted against women, in everything from land ownership to life expectancy because of poor diet to, now, access to the biofuels ...
blog entry - Raj - 29 Apr 2008 - 19:29 - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Biofuels in Latin America
... and soybeans in Argentina, can spur the US's booming biofuel industry demands. Corporate experts and financiers held the First ... of the Americas in Buenos Aires this month to promote biofuel production in the region. Former US Vice President Al Gore addressed ...
blog entry - Raj - 31 May 2007 - 16:51 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- The Architecture of Victory
The San Francisco Victory Garden is well underway, as you can see here . For me, one of the most exciting parts of this lies in the thinking behind the planting. John Bela is the garden's designer, and he's put together an astonishing ...
blog entry - Raj - 10 Jul 2008 - 08:09 - 21 comments - 3 attachments
- Biofuels vs Food in Africa - An Email Reader
... sugar plantations - some of which would go to producing biofuel ethanol. Other news shows that land grabs, deforestation and increasing ... of food. While campaigns in Europe against increased biofuel targets are just starting up (see www.biofuelwatch.org), African ...
blog entry - Raj - 7 May 2007 - 19:34 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Land Grabs and Biofuels in Africa
... incentives for companies to buy up land in Africa for biofuel production. Two Swedish biofuel companies, SweTree Technologies and SEKAB, currently sit on the ...
blog entry - Raj - 9 Oct 2009 - 15:36 - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Tortilla Prices - an Analysis
... recent coverage suggests. It's not simply a case of corn biofuel purchasing in the US causing a price rise in Mexico. The market isn't ...
blog entry - Raj - 3 Feb 2007 - 00:49 - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- Food Sovereignty: An Introduction
The 2007 World Summit on Food Sovereignty has come to an end. Of the many good things at the conference's website is one of the best definitions of Food Sovereignty. Here are the edited highlights from the Declaration , to which 500 represen ...
blog entry - Raj - 1 Mar 2007 - 01:41 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
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