... GM Free Africa . From their bourn comes a reader about biofuels, and the harm they're already causing. Props to Teresa Anderson for ... threat to Africa's food, land, environment and farmers - Biofuels. The reality of Climate Change has now been accepted by world ...

blog entry - Raj - 7 May 2007 - 19:34 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... from Grand Island, Nebraska . It's a story about biofuels, based on a report from, er, the American Meat Institute, which ascribes the rise in the price of meat to biofuels. The estimates per animal are striking: "the costs [are] 53 cents per ...

blog entry - Raj - 20 Mar 2008 - 22:33 - 5 comments - 1 attachment

As the New York Times points out, here and here , biofuels aren't all they're cracked up to be. The revelation was prompted by ... fuels make switching to low-carbon fuels a high priority. Biofuels are a potential low-carbon energy source, but whether biofuels offer ...

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

... here in which he knocks down the following lies: Biofuels are clean and green. Biofuels will not result in deforestation. Biofuels will bring rural ...

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

... expectancy because of poor diet to, now, access to the biofuels market . The road ahead is long. Women Farmers I'd like to hear more about women and access to the biofuels market. (agrofuels, biofuels, gender) ...

blog entry - Raj - 29 Apr 2008 - 19:29 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... Missing was any sort of analysis at all. Indeed, around biofuels, there was a rather straightforward attempt to prevent analysis , with the US pushing the line that biofuels were responsible for only 2% of food price increases ( IFPRI says ...

blog entry - Raj - 5 Jun 2008 - 23:55 - 1 comment - 1 attachment

... price rises have risen because of a perfect storm of biofuels, meat consumption, oil price rises and bad harvests. That ...

blog entry - Raj - 10 Apr 2008 - 17:45 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... prices, where he takes particular aim at the folly of biofuels , but also sees that Governments and private grain dealers used ...

blog entry - Raj - 10 Apr 2008 - 17:18 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

ZNet Commentary Biofuels: a danger for Latin America May 26, 2007 By Marie Trigona Renewable fuels, in particular Biofuels, energy sources derived from agricultural crops have suddenly won the ... demands. Corporate experts and financiers held the First Biofuels Congress of the Americas in Buenos Aires this month to promote biofuel ...

blog entry - Raj - 31 May 2007 - 16:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... bread that is Mexico’s staple, many analysts pointed to biofuels as the culprit. Owing to US government subsidies, turning corn into ... It is particularly worrisome that the new economics of biofuels is encouraging a shift of land away from food crops”. (16) Even two ...

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