Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture

Breadcrumbs

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Bioenergy / Biomass / Biofuels
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
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Biofuelwatch, EcoNexus & Global Forest Coalition

The 2011 Report on Price volatility and food security by the HLPE on Food Security and Nutrition provided well-researched and high-quality evidence about the role of biofuels in recent food price
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
GM crops
GMOs
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R. Steinbrecher & A. Lorch

The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch. Since the
GM rice
GMOs
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
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ENx_GE_rice_PAN-AP_2008.pdf 856.69 KB

by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher

"Rice is the world's most consumed staple food grain, with half the world's people depending on it. It is harvested on about 146 million hectares, representing 10 per cent of global arable land. The
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
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agrofuels_moratorium_1.pdf 134.35 KB
The Agrofuel Moratorium call had a huge number of signatories, many from the global south, already feeling the impacts of the interest in biofuels as a so-called sustainable alternative to fossil

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