30 May 2008 - The painful spike in prices of basic foodstuffs, from wheat and corn, to vegetable oils, rice and meat, has prompted some in the media and politics, normally uninterested in renewable energy, to call for the abandonment of government policies encouraging use of biofuels.
The charge that the growth of biofuels output has taken land away from food production, and therefore caused the hunger, food riots and distress of recent weeks, is a serious one, but does evidence support it?
A team at New Energy Finance has crunched all the numbers on biofuel production, land use, food ...
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New REN21 assessment points to crucial role of policies to make
renewables work for climate change mitigation, energy security, and economic
and social developments.
