AGRON 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Biofuel, Sugarcane, Actionaid
14 Feb 2018
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Consequences 100 mil people hungry, increased food prices, and landlessness. Developing countries expected to grow of. News article: eu biofuels significantly harming food production in developing countries. John vidal on monday feb, 15th 2010 published in the guardian. Eu biofuels 10% targets cause millions of peope to go hungry and increase food prices and landlessness. Millions of acres of land out of food production. The grain grown to produce the fuel in the us in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. "to meet the eu 10% target, the total land area directly required to grow industrial biofuels in developing countries could reach 17. 5m hectares, over half the size of italy. Additional land will also be required in developed nations, displacing food and animal feed crops onto land in new areas, often in developing countries," Biofuels are responsible for 20-30 of the global food price spike in 2008.
