Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'food'
Food vs fuel the debate rumbles on
Its 2009 and some things don't change... the its your fault, no its your fault arguments over how much the biofuel industry is to blame for high food prices is one argument that is bringing some heat to this frigid...
A Short Essay on Biofuels and Related Matters
This is a guest post from Professor David B. Benson (retired), who is a regular commenter on The Big Biofuels Blog.David's contact details: dbenson@eecs.wsu.edu Biofuel------- Photosynthesis uses only a very small fraction of the available sunlight. This means that growing...
Corn is the foundation of US fast food.
Interesting, if off topic, Maribo has piece on the way that the US fast food industry is built on corn. I'll have the corn with a side of corn, too. ...
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...
Digesters and waste food, a proposal
Interesting article on Report Buyer which says electricity could be generated from waste food about using localised digesters to convert food waste into biofuels.Digesters are one part of the answer perhaps. Another useful part could be the use of pyrolysis...
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...
Unilever is against mandatory biofuel targets
Unilever is against mandatory biofuel targets, according to the Guardian newspaper this morning. The huge soap-to-food empire is opposed on the basis that switching crops from food to biofuels is pushing up the prices in the developing world. Unilever has...
World Bank blames biofuels for rising food prices
The World Bank's Development Prospects Group blames biofuels for rising food prices. For me the key passages in the 21page pdf are these.The United States is the largest producer of ethanol from maize and is expected to useabout 81 million...
1000 entries and what have we learned?
Put out the flags. I've reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I've met a whole bunch of people who have commented...
Looks like the world food summit will put pressure on ethanol
Looks to me like the world food summit is going to put pressure on ethanol and biofuel more generally in this report from the Times Online. ...
Biofuel, climate change and poverty: three sides of a triangle
In an interview with Reuters, UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis, who runs a development network covering 166 countries, called for coordination to cope with spikes in food prices and an integrated strategy for development and climate change.He makes a number of...
US biofuel industry says: don't blame us for food price hikes
The US National Biodiesel Board is telling people that the rise in prices at grocery stores is down to the rise in fuel prices not down to the diversion of food crops in the US into fuel. Joe Jobe, the...
There's no free grease any more.
There's no free grease any more, that's the mournful message from Christopher Griffin, director of legal affairs for Griffin Industries, a company that collects raw grease in 20 states and turns it into yellow grease. Its all under contract, apparently....
Is US biofuel policy about soaking tax payers and starving the world
Is US biofuel policy about soaking tax payers and starving the world? The Richmond Times Despatch thinks so in its InRich Blog. Barton Hinkle's piece makes the link between food aid, the ability of biofuel to lift the rural poor...
farmers and ethanol firms blame oil for food costs
US farmers and ethanol firms blame oil for food costs, according to my pal Joe Kamalick on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Looks to me that...
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...
How much is ethanol costing the US
How much does ethanol cost the US, that's the question on a post from Say Anything. just to remind us the author spells it out like this... The other think that’s remarkable in this article is just how much the...
Fertilizer and biofuels
The New York Times has discovered that you need fertiliser to grow corn. The august organ has also discovered that not all the nitrogen fertiliser gets absorbed by the plants and that it can run off into rivers and cause...
Fuel from Corn
I saw this image on Flickr (thankyou Mista Fitz) and thought it was a rather strong image of what many people think is wrong with biofuels at the moment. It may not tell the whole story in terms of...
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...
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