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Biofuels and the Right to Food: Time for the US to get its head out of the sand
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wise, Timothy A. Schutter, Olivier De |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently decided to keep the nation’s head buried deep in the sand when it comes to biofuels policy, refusing to waive [4] the U.S. ethanol mandate in order to ease price pressures in corn and soybeans following the severe U.S. drought. Europe, the other major market feeding its cars at the expense of the world’s people, lifted its collective head from the depths long enough last month to reduce from 10% to 5% [5] the mandated share of transportation fuel that can come from food sources. No such acknowledgment of reality here, where 40% of our corn crop goes to make ethanol. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/GC53Nov12Wise.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/GC53Nov12Wise.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_cuts/20121127_triplecrisis_biofuels.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
