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  • Sweet sorghum, clean miracle crop for feed and fuel 13 May 2008 03:16 GMT
    ... that is fermented and distilled to obtain bioethanol, a clean burning fuel with a high ... added. are also very interested in making biofuel from sweet sorghum, Winslow said. The US Department of Agriculture is sponsoring an international conference in Houston, ...

  • Haiti's poor resort to eating dirt 13 May 2008 02:50 GMT
    ... sharply, and the increasing global demand for biofuels is pressuring food markets as well. The ... hurricane season, prompted the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency to declare states of emergency in ...

  • Readers Agree: Wealthy Farmers' Subsidies Should Be Reduced 13 May 2008 02:33 GMT
    ... Readers Agree: Wealthy Farmers’ Subsidies Should Be Reduced ... freedom to use harmful substances. To begin, ethanol is almost as big a scam as ... half of the ‘70s I can promise agriculture is not like finding money in the ...

  • Trade: UNCTAD XII kicks off, with calls for action on food crisis by Martin Khor 13 May 2008 02:32 GMT
    ... to his assessment, the Chairs' texts on agriculture and NAMA modalities may be delayed to ... opportunity to protect their infant industries and farmers. He said the Doha Round was launched ... causes are many, including the switch to biofuels, high costs due to oil price increases, ...

  • Panic no answer to price rise 13 May 2008 02:17 GMT
    ... true. The diversion to non-food use, like biofuels, of agricultural produce like soya beans has lowered supply ... prices mean more expensive fertilizer; and poor farmers using less fertilizer get lower yield. Water ...

  • Hungry Haiti 13 May 2008 02:15 GMT
    ... wheat prices are up 120%, in part because countries like the U.S. are subsidizing farmers to grow grains for biofuel, not human consumption, the From a narrow, travel-oriented point of view, it's a shame that ...

  • Thomas Friedman's Green Pie in the Sky 13 May 2008 01:56 GMT
    ... Instead of a pie in the face, which ... his lesson as a one-time cheerleader of ethanol. A couple of years ago, Friedman chided ... 70 percent of whom still live in agricultural-dependent villages -- over 980 million are not ...

  • UN chief urges global leadership to combat food crisis 13 May 2008 01:55 GMT
    ... restrictions, poor growing weather, rising use of biofuels that rely on staples like corn and ... level meeting of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on food security, to be ...

  • Food crisis threatens 100m: UN 13 May 2008 01:31 GMT
    ... said Britain would seek changes to EU biofuels targets if it was shown that planting ... of road transport fuel from crops and agricultural waste by 2020. Brown called for more ...

  • Spotlight shines on local food supply 13 May 2008 01:30 GMT
    ... beyond our control -- U.S. and European biofuel policy, rising demand in China, speculation on world ... look at our local food system. Seattle farmers markets play an essential role in a ...

  • Let them eat spuds: potatoes - the world's new staple? 13 May 2008 01:30 GMT
    ... West. Mr Ziegler said that growth in biofuels, speculation on the commodities markets and European ... has set aside large areas of additional agricultural land in an effort to increase their ... cultivation of potatoes and a situation where farmers will grow them either as cash crops ...

  • BIOFUELS FAILING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AS ENVISIONED 13 May 2008 01:30 GMT
    ... Biofuels Failing To Solve Problems As Envisioned Biofuels ... on Climate Change report said by 2020, "agricultural production, including access to food, in many ... The mandate is mostly met by corn-based ethanol. Europe has set similar targets for biofuels. ...

  • VeraSun Reports Increased Revenues and Earnings for Its First Quarter 2008 13 May 2008 01:30 GMT
    ... VeraSun Reports Increased Revenues and Earnings for Its ... (NYSE: VSE), one of the nation's largest ethanol producers, today announced its financial results for ... NewsBlaze, Tags: Tags: Oil, Gas and Energy, Agriculture, Banking and Finance, , south dakota VeraSun ...

  • Global Food Shock 13 May 2008 01:13 GMT
    ... of the U.S. population is employed in agriculture, and 40% of these farmers are 55 ... supply is not eaten, but converted into biofuels. Even coffee beans are being harvested as ... U.S. corn crop was used to produce ethanol. 10 In America, ethanol production is subsidized ...

  • With food costs rising, benefits of ethanol now questioned 13 May 2008 01:12 GMT
    ... With food costs rising, benefits of ethanol now questioned Just months ago, ethanol was the ... R-Iowa, one of the Senate's two working farmers and a longtime ethanol booster, said he ...

  • 'Snip' Online Coupons to Trim Those Grocery Bills 13 May 2008 01:11 GMT
    ... cases, limits on exports. Some analysts also blame government policies that provide incentives for farmers to devote more crops to biofuel production. In recognition of the rising demand for bargains and in hopes of luring cash-strapped ...

  • Ticker tape ain't spaghetti 13 May 2008 01:11 GMT
    ... and other loans into schools, infrastructure and agriculture. The rise in food prices is generally ... the food, and the increased demand for biofuels, which has diverted food supplies like corn into ethanol production. This week, the United Nations' special ...

  • Hybrid Engines Make it to 18-Wheelers 13 May 2008 00:56 GMT
    ... @ EricNet69: Ethanol fuel produced from corn isn't a sustainable process. ... fishing. Back where the corn is grown, farmers can make such a big profit from ...

  • Spain To Help Fight Hunger, Climate Change In Africa 13 May 2008 00:47 GMT
    ... "With this plan, Spain hopes to relaunch agriculture, fight desertification and promote appropriate management of ... use of land and food crops for biofuels, and investors speculating on world futures markets ...

  • Sweet Sorghum Promoted As 'Smart' Biofuel 13 May 2008 00:47 GMT
    ... driest farmland shows promise as a "smart" biofuel that won't cut into world food supplies, an agriculture expert said on Monday. Sweet sorghum, used ... metre) stalk that can be turned into ethanol without damaging the food grain that grows ...

  • Brazilian president wants to make oil cheaper 13 May 2008 00:47 GMT
    ... as national heroes. Brazil is banking on ethanol, produced from sugar cane, as the fuel ... fuel of the future. But Europeans regard biofuels as ecologically questionable. [Lula] Brazil has 33 ... it is not worth changing their well-organized agriculture over to the production biofuels. We, or ...

  • Sweet sorghum: The "smart" biofuel 13 May 2008 00:47 GMT
    ... driest farmland shows promise as a "smart" biofuel that won't cut into world food supplies, an agriculture expert said on Monday. Sweet sorghum, used ... meter) stalk that can be turned into ethanol without damaging the food grain that grows ...

  • Beef and crackersâ not a dish, an occupation 13 May 2008 00:46 GMT
    ... The first cattle known in North America were brought ... fluctuate according to the weather. If American farmers harvest good crops of grain, more cattle ... consumers. However, the diversion of corn to Ethanol and other uses can raise the cost of ...

  • Food prices rising, but no shortage in U.S. 13 May 2008 00:46 GMT
    ... a move to plant more crops for ethanol and other biofuels instead of food. Weather also has been ... we wouldn't have this", said Chris Hurt, agricultural economist with Purdue University. "It's because these ...

  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Beefing up for a revolution 13 May 2008 00:38 GMT
    ... 250,000 head of cattle at present. Poor farmers in Namibia have been unable to access ... given the strong demand for grains for biofuels, it was "unclear whether such demand will ... climate change and the impacts of different agricultural practices may make meat derived from rangeland, ...


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