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FAO's case studies on small-scale bioenergy initiatives

The FAO has pdf on the impacts that small scale biofuels initiative s 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 of biofuels as being...

Published 3 Mar 2009 12:12 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: ethanol, Agriculture, biofuels, FAO, UN, report, Bioethanol, scale, small
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 says European Forest Week...

Published 20 Oct 2008 10:58 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Agriculture, biofuels, FAO, UN, fuel, wood, forest, Rome, timber
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...

Published 8 Oct 2008 11:40 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: ethanol, Policy, Agriculture, cassava, wheat, biofuels, politics, FAO, UN, Biodiesel, Science, Food, gasoline, petrol, maize, rice, report, Sugar, sorghum, beet, Organisation, cane,
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 agreed was that we...

Published 30 Apr 2008 15:50 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: ethanol, UN, Food, ban, taskforce, cellulosic, Ki-moon
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 president Lula will be going...

Published 21 Apr 2008 10:49 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Policy, FAO, UN, Brazil, Lula, Meeting
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 crime...

Published 17 Apr 2008 12:42 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Agriculture, biofuels, politics, UN, Food, Brazil, and, riots, Bayerische, Lula, Rundfunk, Organisaition
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 months...

Published 26 Feb 2008 9:49 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: UN, fuel, Guardian, World, Programme, crops, Food, news, WFP, BBC, World Food Programme
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...

Published 25 Jan 2008 10:39 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Agriculture, price, Corn, human, FAO, rights, UN

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