The State of Food and Agriculture 2008, presented on October 7 by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is the United Nations' most comprehensive look yet at biofuels, which produce around 2 percent of the world's transportation fuels.The use of biofuels is controversial, the report said. While the cleaner-burning fuel represents multiple environmental benefits, it also diverts developing country land use from agriculture used to feed those nations' residents to raising food costs.According to Michela Morese, secretariat manager for the Global Bioenergy Partnership, biofuel use must be managed carefully in order to maximize the upside of the technology."We have to study the risks associated with the use of biofuels and act to control those risks," Morese told BNA. "But the correct response cannot be to pull back from this important fuel source because of the risks."
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