food vs. fuel
Feijão reduz custo de cana (OESP)
Portuguese story available here.
The Agribusiness Technology São Paulo Agency (Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, APTA), Ribeirão Preto chapter, is conducting a research to plant eight types of beans between the sugar cane lines. Not only this is brings another wealth source to the producer but at the same time it raises the food production.
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Drivers of Food Price Increases: Is it fair to blame biofuels? (New Energy Finance)
Again, the food vs. fuel debate. I consider this as a very important issue, since the poor suffer a lot more even from slight changes on food prices.
“Drivers of Food Price Increases: Is it fair to blame biofuels?” (from New Energy Finance) is a study to which I haven’t had full access. However, after reading [...]
It’s Corn vs. Soybeans in a Biofuels Debate (NY Times)
Original article here.
The study cited on this story affirms that the fuel vs. food debate is something we should be concerned about. Indeed, as we previously saw here, most of the current generation of biofuels under production in the US is based on transforming corn grain in ethanol, or soybean in biodiesel. Always good to [...]
