The Agrofuels Trojan Horse: Biotechnology and the Corporate Domination of Agriculture
Policy Brief No. 14
by Annie Shattuck
April 2008
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"BIOFUEL BOOM: GREENWASHING AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Part I)"
November 1, 2007
http://www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/110107.htm
Part I
Agrofuels in Africa: African States squeezed between foreign interests and local food sovereignty
With the advent of agrofuel blending mandates in the US and EU, investors from Europe and United States are currently looking to Africa to help sate the global economy's thirst for energy-and driving many African farmers off their land. More than 80 percent of all land allocated for agrofuel production in Africa is located in productive farmlands and forests that would otherwise be used to grow or gather food.
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.
Biofuels: Myths of the Agro-fuels Transition
by Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D., Executive Director,
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Congress Urged to Ditch Energy Bill Renewable Fuel Standard
October 10, 2007
For Immediate Release
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Nick Berning, 202-222-0748
Coalition of groups sends letter to Pelosi, Reid prior to meeting of energy bill conference committee
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders are being urged by environmental, family farmer, and social justice organizations to ensure that a radical biofuels provision passed by the Senate be left out of final energy legislation under consideration this fall.
Eric Holt-Gimenez discusses Bio-Fuels on KPFA
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)
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)
Eric Holt-Gimenez's Planet Diversity powerpoint slideshow available for download.
Eric recently gave a talk at the May, 2008 Planet Diversity Conference in Bonn, Germany entitled: “The Agrofuels Transition: Industrial Transformation of our Food Systems.” The Powerpoint slide show from that talk is available for download HERE (file is 20 megabytes).