UN official says biofuels a food supply risk

05 Jul 07

Herald Sun-5 July 2007. The head of the UN Environment Program said Cuban leader Fidel Castro and others are justified in raising concern about the potential for ethanol production to threaten food supplies for the poor. [..] "What President Castro points to is something the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has also raised recently: That there is significant potential and risk for competition between food production and production for a global biofuels market," Mr Steiners said during a environmental meeting in Havana.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22020992-23109,00.html

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