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

... 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

... 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 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... mind if I repost here. _____________________ The Biofuel Myths International Herald Tribune By Eric Holt-Giménez ... renewable fuel economy. But in reality, biofuel draws its power from cornucopian myths and directs our attention away ... of food and fuel systems under one industrial roof. Biofuel champions assure us that because fuel crops are renewable, they are ...

blog entry - Raj - 11 Jul 2007 - 08:05 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

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 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... corn prices. The diversion of corn from tortillas to biofuel was certainly one of the proximate causes of the skyrocketing prices, though speculation on likely trends in biofuel demand by transnational middlemen may have played a bigger role. (1) ...

blog entry - Raj - 26 May 2008 - 05:43 - 1 comment - 1 attachment

... Destroying African Agriculture Walden Bello Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more ...

blog entry - Raj - 1 Jul 2008 - 00:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... demand for meat, and the prospect of big vats of cash for biofuel producers have together kicked up the price of primary commodities. ...

blog entry - Raj - 21 Jan 2008 - 04:11 - 1 comment - 7 attachments

... Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a ‘biofuel carbon debt’ by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual ...

blog entry - Raj - 10 Feb 2008 - 05:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments