Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'UN'
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...
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...
Is the UN's food policy diametrically opposed to current biofuels
Is the UN's food policy diametrically opposed to the current generation of biofuels? I only ask because Ban Ki-moon, that the UN food task force will chair has decided in Berne “The first and immediate priority issue that we all...
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...
Biofuels are involved in "a crime against humanity again"
Biofuels are involved in a crime against humanity again. Only this time it’s NOT growing biofuels that would be the crime. Confused? World opinion certainly is. This time its Brazil's president Lula who says that discarding biofuels would be the...
Food prices and food aid
Food prices are rising and this is putting increasing pressure on food aid, according to the United Nations, and reported in yesterday's Guardian. That report, which has a list of food hotspots, says: "We will have a problem in coming...
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...
Governments have responsibiltiy for biofuels policy
UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, has visited a bioethanol plant in Brazil, He too rowed back from the position of UN's special special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, who said biofuels are a crime against humanity. According to...
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...
Biofuels are a "crime against humanity"
Biofuels made from food crops are a "crime against humanity", according to the UN's special special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, and there should be a five year moratorium on their production, according to a report on...
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...
FAO wants global rules for biofuels
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation is pushing for a high level meeting next June to lay down rules for the international bioenergy market, which is currently regulated by domestic policies, according to the Financial Times. The FAO wants...
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 , UN Agencies, biofuels and confusion
Talk about food and biofuels to UN Agencies, confusion is the outcome. About a month ago I ran a piece suggesting that it was not unreasonable for different parts of the UN to disagree over food policy.There's no joined up...
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...
No joined up thinking about biofuels
There's no joined up thinking on biofuels at the UN, according to Global Dashboard reporting on the Guardian Newspaper this morning. This needs more work than I can give it at the moment, and I'm not sure why the UN should...
Combustion or consumption: how to balance biofuels production.
Combustion or consumption: how to balance biofuels production is a question that, is making the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(IRIN), like Unilever, worried that there will be competition for scarce food resources between biofuelers and people who need...
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