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- "BIOFUEL BOOM: GREENWASHING AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Part I)"
... image of green and clean fuel, so much so, that the main biofuel industry association here in Canada is not only called the Canadian ... by the industry. The Canadian government has even placed biofuel initiatives under their new "EcoAction" programs. But are Canadians ...
Food First page - admin - 06/22/2010 - 16:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- AAAGRrrr! # 6 SPECIAL BIOFUELS AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUE
... Biofuels, and Climate Change Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground 8 September, 2008 ... Biofuel firms from Britain, Netherlands, the United States, Sweden, Japan, ... across the entire continent. In Ghana, the Norwegian firm Biofuel Africa has secured 38,000 hectares (93,860 acres), and Sun Biofuels is ...
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- The Great Biofuel Hoax
... maintain the consumptive oil-based lifestyle of the North. Biofuel mania obscures the profound consequences of the industrial ... global South. It's time to examine the myths fueling this biofuel boom -- before it's too late. Myth #1: Agro-fuels are clean and ...
Food First page - admin - 03/28/2008 - 18:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Dead zone in gulf linked to ethanol production
... worst environmental catastrophe in recent U.S. history, a biofuel is contributing to a Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" the size of New Jersey ... been a very large-scale conversion of these CRP lands to biofuel production," Ostrom said. Those soils have accumulated carbon from the ...
Food First page - admin - 07/07/2010 - 14:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say
... U.S. taxpayers will continue to subsidise every gallon of biofuel for decades to come, the report found. On Dec. 19, President George ... for higher-priced foods,” said Brown. This lose-lose biofuel strategy doesn’t even offer any genuine environmental benefits, he ...
Food First page - admin - 06/22/2010 - 16:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Pasadena family makes its mark on America’s modern agrarian movement, produces over 5,000 pounds of food on a fifth of an acre of land
... watering the crops and producing up to 30 gallons of biofuel produced from waste, caring for the eight chickens, five ducks and two ...
Food First page - admin - 07/12/2010 - 16:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- “So That Everyone Can Eat, Produce It Here": Food Sovereignty and Land Reform in Haiti
... jatropha [whose seeds produce oil which can be used for biofuel]. The Jatropha Foundation is lobbying hard to start growing. Jatropha ... don’t have enough land to be able to divert some toward biofuel. Haiti is only 27,760 square kilometers. Their plan would have us ...
Food First page - admin - 06/21/2010 - 18:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Food First Policy Brief No. 13
... June 2007. Scully, Vaughan. 2007. Effects of the Biofuel Boom: Market Views. Business Week. August 27. Philpott, Tom. 2007. ... and W.Winisarter. “Nitrous oxide release from agro-biofuel production negates global warming reduction by replacing fossil ...
Food First page - admin - 06/22/2010 - 16:29 - 0 comments - 1 attachment
- Will Agro fuels Usher Famine?
... Biodiversity Network said. He warned that global biofuel developments are going to have a huge impact on the African continent ...
Food First page - admin - 06/22/2010 - 16:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Agrofuels in Africa: African States squeezed between foreign interests and local food sovereignty
... Rajagopal, D. 2007. Rethinking Current Strategies for Biofuel Production in India. University of California, Berkeley [ii] Schlecht, E. and A. Buekert. 2009. The Biofuel Debate - Status Quo and Research Needs to Meet Multiple Goals of Food, ...
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