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- Food Crisis, Which Crisis?
... crisis. At the same time, the much-maligned practice of biofuel (or agrofuel) cultivation is being defended by its corporate and ... that financial speculation, neoliberal restructuring and biofuel cultivation play alongside those other factors? The first version, ...
Food First page - admin - 06/03/2008 - 18:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Colombia palm oil biodiesel plantations: A "lose-lose" development strategy?
... Florida governor Jeb Bush. Both Bush and Moreno champion biofuel production in the Global South to create jobs, stimulate domestic ... Notes 1 “IDB targets $3 billion in Private Sector Biofuel Projects,” Inter-American Development Bank website, Press Release, ...
Food First page - admin - 02/18/2008 - 17:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- People Putting Food First #109
... Farm Gate – New tools for local fuel production Biofuel production, now being capitalized on by big agribusiness, began with ...
Newsletter issue - admin - 03/12/2008 - 20:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- People Putting Food First #87
... and the Berkeley Daily Planet on the impact of the current biofuel mania on who gets to eat. http://www.foodfirst.org/node/1625 ...
Newsletter issue - admin - 02/28/2007 - 15:39 - comments - 0 attachments
- 2007 Farm and Food Policy Platform of the California Coalition on Food and Farming
... support for renewable energy and environmentally sound biofuel development. * Assures equity and fairness by implementing meaningful ...
Food First page - admin - 03/23/2007 - 13:48 - comments - 0 attachments
- Exploding the Biofuel Myths
Exploding the Biofuel Myths by Eric Holt-Giménez Biofuels are the subject of much ... of food and fuel systems under one industrial roof. Biofuel champions assure us that because fuel crops are renewable, they are ... rural development. But the tremendous market power of biofuel corporations, coupled with the poor political will of governments to ...
Food First page - Ryan Brubaker - 07/06/2007 - 17:43 - comments - 0 attachments
- Food, Fuel and Green Revolutions: The U.S. 2007 Farm Bill slogs forward
... bill's definition is so broad that it includes imported biofuel sources such as palm oil from Southeast Asia and sugarcane ethanol and ...
Food First page - admin - 04/08/2009 - 17:14 - comments - 0 attachments
- U.S. Biofuels eating into Mexican Tortillas?
... trend in which agribusiness is rapidly substituting biofuel crops for food crops, further displacing smallholders and driving up ... to rise. We have begun to see this of late, as demand for biofuel has boosted prices of agricultural commodities on exchanges from ...
Blog entry - admin - 05/02/2008 - 16:26 - comments - 0 attachments
- Women in Brazil Protest Bush's Visit: The poor refuse to grow fuel for the rich
... responsible for 70% of the production of food, for biofuel crops, compromising food sovereignty. “As a result, we assume ...
Blog entry - admin - 05/02/2008 - 16:21 - comments - 0 attachments
- People Putting Food First #90
... The ecological and social tragedy of crop-based biofuel production in the Americas http://www.foodfirst.org/node/1662 ...
Newsletter issue - admin - 04/05/2007 - 15:31 - comments - 0 attachments