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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 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 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 - 0 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 - 5 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 - 1 comment - 0 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 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Why Africa Goes Hungry
... and, in many cases, their survival. In sum, biofuel production did not create but only exacerbated the global food crisis. ...
blog entry - Raj - 18 Aug 2008 - 19:16 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- All the World's a CAFO
... -- cheap corn and soy for feed -- has dried up since the biofuel boom started in 2006. The flailing economy means people are eating out ...
blog entry - Raj - 21 Nov 2008 - 20:51 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- George Monbiot on Biofuels
... gone awry. Now it is plain fraud. The governments using biofuel to tackle global warming know that it causes more harm than good. But ... is not clear that they can overtake the booming demand for biofuel. Even if they do, they will catch up only by ploughing virgin habitat. ...
blog entry - Raj - 8 Apr 2007 - 02:42 - 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 - 1 comment - 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 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
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