Governments have responsibiltiy for biofuels policy
UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, has visited a bioethanol plant in Brazil, He too rowed back from the position of UN’s special special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, who said biofuels are a crime...
View ArticleHow the harvest is looking
As the harvest is almost entirely in around the world. Its perhaps worth looking at how the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation sees this year’s harvest The good news for North American ethanol...
View ArticleUN FAO has more doubts about biofuels
Over on Greenbang, there’s an interesting comment on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s latest thoughts on biofuels and the spike they are causing in agricultural commodity prices....
View ArticleFood prices and food aid
Food prices are rising and this is putting increasing pressure on food aid, according to the United Nations, and reported in yesterday’s Guardian. That report, which has a list of food hotspots, says:...
View ArticleBiofuels are involved in “a crime against humanity again”
Biofuels are involved in a crime against humanity again. Only this time it’s NOT growing biofuels that would be the crime. Confused? World opinion certainly is. This time its Brazil’s president Lula...
View ArticleBiofuels and food
It will be interesting to see if this FAO “Summit on food security”, scheduled for 3 to 5 June 2008 at the FAO headquarters in Rome will get any further towards what to do about food supplies and fuel....
View ArticleIs the UN’s food policy diametrically opposed to current biofuels
Is the UN’s food policy diametrically opposed to the current generation of biofuels? I only ask because Ban Ki-moon, that the UN food task force will chair has decided in Berne “The first and immediate...
View ArticleFAO wants biofuel support examined and outlines world biofuel capacity
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation wants subsisidies, tariffs and tax-breaks for biofuels production examined and possibly reduced in a press release which marks the publication of...
View ArticleBiofuels from timber, perhaps you should be in Vienna now
Oh the things you find out too late to do much about. That’s what comes of thinking strategically of other things. Anyway. It’s European Forest week at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome....
View ArticleFAO’s case studies on small-scale bioenergy initiatives
The FAO has pdf on the impacts that small scale biofuels initiatives have had on the lives of participants in the developing world. It is downloadable as a PDF. The report is interesting because it...
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