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·30/8/2010 - Biofuels firms buy up African land, cause deforestation, food output loss, Bloomberg

·10/3/2010 - Are new biofuels the ethical answer?, SciDev.Net

·7/3/2010 - United Kingdom: Grimsby to host a biofuel blockbuster, Times (UK)

·24/9/2009 - Trees: Out of the Forest and Into the Oven, Inter Press Service

·3/6/2009 - Lawmakers seek broader U.S. biomass-for-biofuel list, Reuters

·25/4/2009 - Is Biofuel Policy Harming European Biodiversity?, ScienceDaily

·10/3/2009 - Toxic jatropha shrub fuels Mexico's biodiesel push, Reuters

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·Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests

·Seedlings: Agrofuels Special Issue

·Palm Oil Action

·Ghosts on our Own Land

·Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal

·Biofuel by Decree

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1. Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double Jeopardy for Biodiversit...           Rank: 75%

Contributed Paper Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double Jeopardy for Biodiversity and Climate FINN DANIELSEN, ∗ HENDRIEN BEUKEMA,† NEIL D. BURGESS,‡§ FAIZAL PARISH, ∗∗ CARSTEN A. BR ¨ UHL,†† PAUL F. DONALD,‡‡ DANIEL MURDIYARSO,§§ BEN PHALAN,‡ LUCAS REIJNDERS, ∗∗∗ MATTHEW STRUEBIG,††† AND EMILY B. FITZHERBERT‡‡‡§§§ ∗ NORDECO, Skindergade...
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Links and Information from Forests.Org Biofuel Plantations News Results ·10/3/2010 - Are new biofuels the ethical answer?, SciDev.Net ·7/3/2010 - United Kingdom: Grimsby to host a biofuel blockbuster, Times (UK) ·24/9/2009 - Trees: Out of the Forest and Into the Oven, Inter Press Service ·3/6/2009 - Lawmakers seek broader U.S. biomass-for-biofuel list, Reuters ·25/4/2009 - Is Biofuel Policy...
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3. Biofuel plantations fuel strife in Uganda           Rank: 74%

Kampala turned into an ugly race riot. Asian shops were ransacked, an Asian was stoned to death and police killed two demonstrators. The...
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4. Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate...           Rank: 73%

Hendrien Beukema of University of Groningen in the Netherlands. For fauna, only one in six forest species can survive in plantations, the study finds. Most of these are common and widespread species. "Conserving the existing forests is not only good for the climate as the emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced but also generates additional benefits, such as biodiversity protection" said Dr....
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5. Paper - Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double Jeopardy...           Rank: 73%

Agency for Development and Ecology (NORDECO). "Until then, we will be releasing carbon into the atmosphere by cutting tropical rain forests, in addition to losing valuable plant and animal species. It's even worse on peatlands, which contain so much carbon that it would be 600 years before we see any benefits whatsoever." Biofuels have been touted as an environmentally friendly alternative to...
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6. Myanmar to create biofuel plantations on 3.25 million hectares           Rank: 72%

With funding from the U.S. Department of Labor Workforce Innovation for Regional Economic Development (WIRED), Michigan State University intends to open a training facility dedicated to students and workers who want to start a career in the State's growing bioeconomy. Michigan State University - May 4, 2007. Researchers from the Texas A&M University have presented a "giant" sorghum variety for the...
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7. EU: rainforests can be converted to palm oil plantations for...           Rank: 72%

Environmental groups quickly condemned the plan. "This leaked document shows the disgraceful attempts to push palm oil through European laws designed to prevent destruction of the world's forests," said Adrian Bebb, agrofuels campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth Europe, in a statement. "Allowing the expansion of palm plantations to fuel cars and lorries in Europe will have a devastating...
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