Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'FAO'
FAO's case studies on small-scale bioenergy initiatives
The FAO has pdf on the impacts that small scale biofuels initiatives have had on the lives of participants in the developing world. It is downloadable as a PDF. The report is interesting because it approaches the users and producers...
Bill Clinton's ideas for agriculture
Bill Clinton, ex US president, was speaking at world food day recently. He said:"We should go back to a policy of maximum agricultural self-sufficiency," Clinton said. While there would always be a global market for crops like rice, wheat and...
Biofuels from timber, perhaps you should be in Vienna now
Oh the things you find out too late to do much about. That's what comes of thinking strategically of other things. Anyway. It's European Forest week at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. NOW. The website saysEuropean Forest...
FAO wants biofuel support examined and outlines world biofuel capacity
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation wants subsisidies, tariffs and tax-breaks for biofuels production examined and possibly reduced in a press release which marks the publication of its annual report The State of Food. That report makes a compelling...
Surely taking corn out of the market will raise the price
I've been in conversation with David Benson, about the role of biofuels in the current round of food price rises across the world. We've been chatting in the comments a couple of posts back . I don't think that...
Will biofuels marginalise women?
Will biofuels marginalise women in the developing world? The FAO thinks that it might. In a rather negative report it concludes that biofuels will be farmed on marginal land, which is currently used by women to farm subsistence crops, it...
Biofuels and food
It will be interesting to see if this FAO "Summit on food security", scheduled for 3 to 5 June 2008 at the FAO headquarters in Rome will get any further towards what to do about food supplies and fuel. Brazil's...
The end of the free for all...
Kevin Downing on the MaRS blog thinks that it is going to get harder to fund new ethanol plants. I think that he's right, not only because the regulatory framework that biofuels plants will operate in is likely to change...
UN FAO has more doubts about biofuels
Over on Greenbang, there's an interesting comment on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's latest thoughts on biofuels and the spike they are causing in agricultural commodity prices. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIipI7rsh-IaoutsJKgAmzG5Mh0gD8UBKQ6O1 Its worth reading the report on Regan Suzuki's comments on the...
How the harvest is looking
As the harvest is almost entirely in around the world. Its perhaps worth looking at how the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation sees this year's harvest The good news for North American ethanol producers is that there was a bumper...
Biofuels are not a "crime against humanity": FAO
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has come out against the statement yesterday by UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, that biofuels are a crime against humanity, and is quoted by Biopact as saying: We regret...
Crop prices hit records in key grains
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation published its most recent crops prospect and Food Situation Report. Key findings to chew over as you go to the report: The global cereal supply and demand situation has continued to tighten in recent...
Maize and wheat prices could stay high for 10 years
Maize and wheat prices have shot up to their highest levels since 2000 in the past few months, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and reported on Yubanet. The report says an increased demand for biofuel production...
Biofuel could destabilise society: FAO
Increases in the prices of basic food products could spark "social tension" in developing countries, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Director-General Jacques Diouf said in an interview published Friday, in the FT and quoted by...
Biofuels are changing agricultural economics
Biofuels are changing agricultural economics according to the OECD and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in a report on ICIS News. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) This is...
Food vs Fuel Here's the kicker
Here's the kicker: consumers with one three hundredth per capita income compared to that of the developed countries cannot be expected to pay the same price for food-grains as those in the developed countries. That's my emphasis I dug that...
Biofuels could be very good for third world: UN
Biofuels could be very good for the third world Gustavo Best head of energy policy at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, talking to Reuters. He draws an interesting parallel with the Green Revolution of the 1960s: "It's probably the...
Cereal demand and production is going to be tight in 2007
Production of cereals and demand for them is going to be tight in 2007, according to a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, in a statement released yesterday. The FAO Says World cereal production in 2007 is on...
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