Obama’s Biofuels Insanity By ROBERT BRYCE Barack Obama’s biofuels insanity continues. And it continues without any regard for history, basic arithmetic, or the recent spike in food prices. Last month, the Farm Foundation a centrist non-profit group based in Illinois, released a study which named biofuels as one of the key factors that is driving [...]
Industrial activity has cut down 7,000 square kilometres of Brazil‘s Amazonian rainforest so far this year [EPA] Biofuels are an alternative energy source that can drive local development by generating jobs, know-how and technology. But they can also cause social damage, as locals fear in the case of industrial-scale exploitation of babassu palm trees, which grow abundantly [...]
Kenya‘s Tana Delta is disappearing and its inhabitants evicted to make way for foreign biofuels. Photograph: Dominic Nahr/Magnum Gamba Manyatta village is empty now, weeds already roping around the few skeletal hut frames still standing. The people who were evicted took as much of their building materials as they could carry to start again [...]
Biofuels boom in Africa as British firms lead rush on land for plantations Controversial fuel crops linked to rising food prices and hunger, as well as increased greenhouse gas emissions Share126 Comments (44) Damian Carrington and Stefano Valentino guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 31 May 2011 21.00 BST Article history An Ivory Coast nursery for jatropha, a non-edible [...]
Global food crisis: Counting the real cost of biofuels A perfect storm of factors has driven the breathtaking rates of inflation and volatility in food markets over recent years, but biofuels have been the game changer Share10 Comments (2) Corn is loaded into a truck in Valley Springs, South Dakota. In 2008, while biofuels accounted [...]
