Monday, May 21, 2012

Biofuels goals 'may lead to food shortages'

SciDev.Net: Parts of the developing world, particularly India and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, will suffer food shortages if their planned biofuels targets are implemented by 2020, a study has warned. The study, which looked at 25 countries and geographical regions, including Latin American and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States, found that the targets will also affect national wealth. "Our results suggest that the impacts would be significant in developing countries like India...

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