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UN Food Agency questions the urgency of Biofuels
By Todd Whittemore
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is challenging various government world policies that encourages the use of the biofuel production, because their study indicates that this would put additional pressure on rising food prices and have little affect in diminishing car users from oil dependency.
Their report indicated that the growing world demand will create higher agricultural commodity prices for the next 10 years. The study indicated that as the demand for biofuel increase by 30%, from 2007 to 2010, so will the following: 1. The price of sugar will rise by 20%. 2. Maize (corn) will risy by 11%. and 3. Vegetable oil prices will rise by 6%.
To say the least... Alternatively, FAO predicts that the world production output of main agricultural crops will rise by 7% between 2007 to 2010 (such as wheat, rice, coarse grains, rapeseed, soybean, sunflower seed, palm oil and sugar).
But is that enough? Although there has been a great debate of food vs fuel, in which many blame the biofuel production the sole reason for the food price increases. FAO is not so quick with that full blame. FAO report also includes poor harvest results and demand for a richer diet in places like China and India, as the reasons for the spike in food prices over the last several years. But the report does say that rise in the biofuel production and the future demand, will put more people at risk of food hunger that may require food aid and other resources. FAO report also outlines doubts that carbon monoxide emission could be reduced by biofuels. It takes more fuel to plant and harvest the extra land for the agricultural crops (wheat, rice, coarse grains, rapeseed, soybean, sunflower seed, palm oil and sugar) for biofuel production. Most importantly, trees are being cut down to make room for these additional biofuel agricultural crop production. There will be more loss than a gain with the biofuel production in relation to global warming. FAO report is not quite giving the thumbs done completely on biofuel technology. The organization is submitting a quite good recommendation to concentrate on more funding and research for the "second generation" biofuel crop production, such as straw and algea. These kind of crops or biofuel production would never tap into the human food supply. What are your thoughts on biofuel technology and agricultural crop availability?
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