Food vs Fuel a Scottish perspective
There’s an interesting , if long in the Sunday Herald a Scottish newspaper, about how the interplay between food and fuel could play out. The key points of Kenney Kemp’s article is that not all...
View ArticleIs the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food?
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food? Despite the measured tones (and graph) in my previous post (Is the price of corn too low?),the price of bagels in New York seems to be more...
View ArticleAl Jazeera on Biofuels
Check this from Al Jazeera on biofuels. Balanced interview with UK Special Rapporteur for food and European Biofuel proponent.
View ArticleBiofuels drive up food prices: Bodman and Scafer
There’s been a definitive piece of work on biofuels and food prices presented to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 11 June chaired by Jeff Bingaman. Two secretaries of state...
View Article1000 entries and what have we learned?
Put out the flags. I’ve reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I’ve met a whole bunch of people who have commented on...
View ArticleWorld Bank blames biofuels for rising food prices
The World Bank’s Development Prospects Group blames biofuels for rising food prices. For me the key passages in the 21page pdf are these. The United States is the largest producer of ethanol from maize...
View ArticleUS almost out of corns stocks by harvest 09
The US will be almost out of corn stocks by harvest 09, according to Phil Brasher in the Des Moines Register. You must read the article it points up the complete failure of corn to ethanol as a...
View ArticleCould Russia become a biofuel superpower?
This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK’s Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking about the possibility of it becoming a...
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 ArticleEnsus new website outlines paradox at heart of biofuel from food processes
Ensus new website, for me outlines the paradox at the heart of the biofuel from food processes. If you take food out of the food chain then there’s less to eat. It really is that simple even if you’re...
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