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US biofuel subsidies under attack at food summit
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jun 4, 2008 10:12 AM EDT
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US subsidies for biofuel production were condemned by the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) this morning, who said they were depriving people of food.
Opening a UN food crisis summit in Rome, Jacques Diouf attacked the subsidies for corn ethanol during a wide-ranging critique of global policies on climate change and food security, which he said were slanted to favour the west.
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"Nobody understands [why] $11-12bn of subsidies in 2006 and protective tariff policies [should be used to] divert 100m tonnes of cereals from human consumption, mostly to satisfy a thirst for fuel for vehicles," Diouf, the FAO director general, said.
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#1 - Wed Jun 4, 2008 10:14 AM EDT{"commentId":1891754,"authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}
Someone needs to drop by that meeting and inform them that ethanol has just about everything to do with high foreign oil prices and attempts to break that link.
The Saudis and others are looking around for foreign farmlands. Maybe if oil prices dropped there might be more food available.
It is also time to begin asking in earnest why so many other countries continue to fail to develop adequate agriculture programs, or, failing that, why aren't population control measures in place? This problem is eternal until it is addressed.
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