The Agrofuels Trojan Horse: Biotechnology and the Corporate Domination of Agriculture
Policy Brief No. 14
by Annie Shattuck
April 2008
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What's for dinner? Corn ethanol, feedlots and what you eat
by Annie Shattuck
April 10, 2008
The debate over renewable energy is raging. The U.S. Congress recently passed a renewable fuels mandate which will effectively create an artificial market for at least 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol per year. Numerous studies have criticized ethanol's environmental footprint. From negligible greenhouse gas savings to increased ground level ozone, and dependency on high-input agriculture–corn ethanol's critics have painted a picture of a costly band-aid for our energy crisis.
"BIOFUEL BOOM: GREENWASHING AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Part I)"
November 1, 2007
http://www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/110107.htm
Part I
Eric Holt-Gimenez discusses Bio-Fuels on KPFA, listener-sponsored radio
Eric Holt-Gimenez was a guest on the KPFA Morning Show July 6, 2007.
Information on the show can be found at http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=21104
Listen to an excerpt of the show (5.5 mb mp3)
Food First Policy Brief No. 13
By Eric Holt-Giménez and Isabella Kenfield
March 2008
When Renewable Isn’t Sustainable: Agrofuels and the Inconvenient Truth behind the 2007 U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act
When Renewable isn’t Sustainable: Agrofuels’ and the Inconvenient Truths behind U.S. Energy Independence
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March 20, 2008
FOOD FIRST RELEASES POLICY BRIEF ON AGROFUELS AND THE 2007 US ENERGY BILL
Report highlights growing hunger, energy dependency on Global South, corporate control
The Great Agrofuel Swindle
Agrofuels and the inconvenient truths behind the 2007 U.S. Energy Bill
Guerrilla News Network
by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Isabella Kenfield
March 26, 2008
Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say
by Stephen Leahy
January 26, 2008
BROOKLIN - U.S. biofuels production is driving up food prices around the world, giving billions of poor people a very good reason to hate U.S. policy, say environmentalists.
“The U.S. has led the fight to stem global hunger, now we are creating hunger,” said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington.
U.S.-based coalition calls for a moratorium on U.S. incentives for biofuels
December 17, 2007
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez
510-654-4400 ext 227
Spanish and Portuguese translations below.
A coalition of U.S organizations is calling for an Immediate Moratorium on U.S. incentives for agrofuels, U.S. agroenergy monocultures and global trade in agrofuels. The Coalition is asking your organization to help strengthen the Call by signing on.
Will Agro fuels Usher Famine?
Black Star News
by Sifelani Tsiko
December 14, 2007
Industrialized countries are drawing up ambitious renewable fuel targets to reap huge rewards from the bio-fuels boom while avoiding discussion of the heavy price people in the Global South are paying to help sustain the consumptive oil-based lifestyles of the West.
Agronomists, ecologists, environmentalists and development activists who met recently in Mali called on African governments to resist pressure from the Industrialized North to grow food crops for the production of biodiesel.