Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'wheat'
Ensus new website outlines paradox at heart of biofuel from food processes
Ensus new website, for me outlines the paradox at the heart of the biofuel from food processes. If you take food out of the food chain then there's less to eat. It really is that simple even if you're using...
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...
Could Russia become a biofuel superpower?
This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK's Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking about the possibility of it becoming a biofuel...
US almost out of corns stocks by harvest 09
The US will be almost out of corn stocks by harvest 09, according to Phil Brasher in the Des Moines Register. You must read the article it points up the complete failure of corn to ethanol as a sensible economic...
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...
Biofuels drive up food prices: Bodman and Scafer
There's been a definitive piece of work on biofuels and food prices presented to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 11 June chaired by Jeff Bingaman. Two secretaries of state Samuel W. Bodman (energy) and Edward T....
Al Jazeera on Biofuels
Check this from Al Jazeera on biofuels. Balanced interview with UK Special Rapporteur for food and European Biofuel proponent....
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food?
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food? Despite the measured tones (and graph) in my previous post (Is the price of corn too low?),the price of bagels in New York seems to be more closely...
Food vs Fuel a Scottish perspective
There's an interesting , if long in the Sunday Herald a Scottish newspaper, about how the interplay between food and fuel could play out. The key points of Kenney Kemp's article is that not all countries have more land to...
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...
If you've not got your corn position sorted for 2008 by now you could be in trouble
If you've not got your corn position sorted for 2008 by now you could be in trouble, according to the last couple of graphs from US Wheat, the group sees marginal growth in global corn production, but shortages in wheat...
Details of the UK's road transport fuel obligation are out
Details of the UK's renewable transport fuel obligation are out, published on 09 October, reprinted in They Work for you (a website that aims to help you keep track of your MP, one for the anoraks (policy wonks) then). Biofuels...
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...
Wheat prices up and Brazil worries about ethanol
Rich pickings today on Planet Ark, the price of wheat in Europe is soaring, apparently because of a drought in Australia. Didn't know we imported much wheat from Australia, mostly lamb. The absolute prices for wheat in the US quoted...
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...
wheat and biofuels (again)
There's an interesting round up of the interaction between crops and biofuels over on >living more than.com...
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...
Riots in Yemen over the rising price of food staples
There have been riots in Yemen over the rising price of food staples such as wheat , according to Al Jazeera. Although Yemen is in the Arabian Peninsula, it is not blessed with oil. The government has instructed one of...
Autumn the season of mellow fruitfulness is coming
Autumn the season of mellow fruitfulness is coming, but will there be enough grain to feed the world through the winter, and drive them to the markets? The numbers for the US have not settled down yet. In March, according...
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