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·19/6/2009 - Washington: City of Seattle halts biodiesel purchases, looks for greener fuel, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
·18/6/2009 - Poet prepares for second-gen biofuel push, Business Green
·11/6/2009 - Canada: Shell sells straw-based biofuel, BBC
·9/6/2009 - Higher U.S. ethanol blends would spike food: experts, Reuters
·25/5/2009 - United Kingdom: Where have all our birds gone?, Guardian
·14/5/2009 - Against the grain of industrial agriculture, truly local bread stages a comeback, Grist
·14/5/2009 - ADM sees U.S. ethanol blend rising by 2010, Reuters
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·Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal
·The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity
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- 1. Biofuels, food prices and malnutrition Rank: 74%
- malnutrition China's booming economy, a spate of poor harvests across the world and the growing trend to turn food into fuel for our cars are causing millions of people to go hungry. The international price of wheat, maize (corn), soya beans and dozens of other foods has at least doubled in the last two years and in some cases nearly trebled. World grain reserves are at their lowest ebb since 1960, and the US stockpile has not been this low since 1948. The granary is almost empty The United...
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- 2. 'Biofuels pushing food prices higher' Rank: 74%
- higher' Experts across the world have expressed concern over the global drive to put biofuels in petrol tanks which was pushing food prices up. "Pakistan is experiencing skyrocketing prices of sugar, wheat, ghee and edible oils due to high prices of such commodities internationally," said an economic expert, Eng M A Jabbar. "As farmers across the western world grow more crops for turning them into bio-ethanol and bio-diesel and less for food, supply is being squeezed. Though touted as a way of...
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- 3. Biofuels behind food price hikes: leaked World Bank report Rank: 73%
- hikes: leaked World Bank report Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75 percent, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday. The daily said the report was finished in April but was not published to avoid embarrassing the US government, which has claimed plant-derived fuels have pushed up prices by only three percent. Biofuels, which supporters claim are a "greener" alternative to using fossil fuel and cut...
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- 4. Biofuels 'caused food price spike' Rank: 73%
- 'caused food price spike' Biofuels have caused world food prices to go up by 75%, it has been reported. The Guardian said it has seen the figure in a confidential World Bank report which contradicts US government claims that using plants to produce fuel contributes less than 3% to food prices. According to the paper, sources believe the analysis - carried out by a respected economist at the global financial body - has not been published to avoid embarrassing US President George Bush. The leaked...
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- 5. Food prices to rise for years, biofuel firms say Rank: 73%
- firms say Staple food prices will rise for some years, but should eventually fall to historical averages as harvests increase, biofuel company executives said on Thursday. Soaring demand for better quality food from rapidly industrialising emerging markets such as China, supply shortages, increased demand for biofuels, and a surging appetite for food commodities by investment funds, have combined to push prices of basic foods higher and higher in recent months. Stephane Delodder, managing...
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- 6. China: Food prices dim biofuel glow Rank: 73%
- glow Studies debunking the environmental benefits of ethanol have made little impression in China, which is betting on biofuels as the green answer to coal and oil to help clear its increasingly smog-filled skies. But economic realities of surging food prices and global inflation are beginning to disturb the ethanol dream. Prices for cassava and other non-grain feedstock promoted in China as a safe alternative to the conversion of precious corn into ethanol fuel are quickly rising. Producers say...
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- 7. Biofuel blamed for rocketing food prices Rank: 73%
- rocketing food prices Growing world demand for "environmentally friendly" biofuels is partly to blame for the rocketing price of food in South Africa, analysts at the National Agricultural Marketing Council have warned. Last week, the council reported that national average food prices had risen almost 14 percent over the past year and that demand for biofuels in rich nations was one of the contributors to higher domestic prices for a wide range of products, from maize to beef, milk and chickens....
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