25 September 2007
EU criteria for ‘sustainable’ agrofuels (also known as ‘biofuels’) are
set on a collision course with the EU’s proposed 10 per cent mandatory
target for agrofuel use, according to a new report published to
coincide with today’s European Parliament vote on the Thomsen Report on
renewable energy
Agrofuels - Another Scramble for Africa?
Trusha Reddy
Institute for Security Studies, 20 September 2007
Just as we begin to come to terms with the colonially-sponsored
corporate conquest of our oil resources, along comes a new wave of
‘green’ companies turning fertile African lands to Northern ‘gold’.
The price of corn is social justice
John Burstein and Manuel Pérez Rocha
15 March 2007
The increased demand for ethanol production in the US has left millions
of Mexicans facing higher corn prices. Policy reform is needed to
protect Mexican farmers from the damaging impacts of highly
industialised and subsidised US agri-business, argue John Burstein and
Manuel Pérez Rocha.
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