Comments on: “Biofuels Behind World Food Crisis”- World Bank

By: siren sativa

siren sativa — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:19:20 +0000

Isn’t it curious that the world bank would publish a report “against” renewable fuels….

By: afonya

afonya — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:05:04 +0000

Fewer people and a removal of globalism + speculation economy is the only solution.

By: karuna Sharma

karuna Sharma — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:02:40 +0000

being a humame being we should not consider as we belong to developed country. As in normal condition also many people are not able to eat two time with enough and good nutrition. Really the price of food in developing countires has rise price of all the food items. therefore developed countries should not use Bioproduct or such type of products for fuel where there is shortage globally.

Karuna Sharma

By: HaraldF,

HaraldF, — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:10:07 +0000

According to the latest FAO report "Crop Prospects and Food Situation", 100 million tons of grain are being diverted to make biofuel this year, but over seven times as much (760 million tons) will be used to feed animals to produce meat. Depending on the type of animal, it takes up to, and sometimes more than, 10 plant calories to deliver 1 meat calorie. Meat consumption is therefore by far the biggest waste of grain globally. Possible ways of future nutrition without livestock are presented by the FutureFood-project.

By: Antiglobalism

Antiglobalism — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:24:52 +0000

The biofuel industry was lobbied through for the food corporations to take control over the future energy assets. Add overpopulation and it’s a fact that food prices spike to the roof.

Fewer people and a removal of globalism + speculation economy is the only solution.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:12:16 +0000

Grain prices aren’t just going up because of fuel. Increasingly, animals are being fed grain on factory farms, and grass fed animals on pastures take up huge amounts of arable land. It takes 20kg of vegetable protein to produce 1kg of protein from cows. Water use for raising animals is also many times higher than crops. And of course animals are producing more greenhouse gasses than air and auto transport combined. The standard american diet is eating the planet into climate change, driving poverty, war, and terrorism. We could easily provide clean biofuel and food for the world if we stopped wasting food on polluting animals.