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Policies favoring biofuel crop production may inadvertently
contribute to the process of climate change as farmers across the tropics raze forests to plant biofuel crops.
Tagged: biofuels, Environmental Research, rainforest, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Stanford researchers demonstrate how high energy prices and policies that promote biofuels result in higher food prices, examining in detail the potential global effects of biofuels expansion in four countries for four crops.
Tagged: biofuels, conservation, food, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues
Could hundreds of millions of acres of abandoned agricultural land help ease the energy crunch without worsening the world food shortage or contributing to global warming?
Tagged: biofuels, farming, food, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences
Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon confront the global food crisis, urging the United States to alter its current policies on biofuels, international food aid and agricultural research.
Tagged: biofuels, conservation, economics, energy, food, poverty, Environment & Sustainability, Human Health, Earth Sciences, Faculty