Apr

30

Food crisis due to Biofuels frenzy

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0503_people-carrying-sacks6.jpgA “biofuels frenzy” and other misguided policies have led to the global food crisis in which rice consumption is outpacing production, threatening a billion people with malnutrition, experts said.
‘We’re all familiar with the biofuels frenzy that has distorted grain markets,” said Zeigler.

International agriculture researchers warned that farmers will need to double global food production by 2030 to meet rising demand, and said countries should impose a moratorium on grain-based ethanol and biodiesel to rein in skyrocketing prices for corn, rice, soybeans and wheat.

Head of the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute,Robert Zeigler also said,”For the first time, it’s been clear that we are consuming more rice than we are producing globally”.



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