Jakarta, (IANS) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Monday stressed that the need of bio-fuel should not be at the sacrifice of food security as the world should be alert against food scarcity.
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- Contribution of Forests to Food Security Needs Attention - AllAfrica.com
Tag Archive: Biofuel
Apr 22
Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure?
A Norwegian company, ScanFuel Ltd., says its Ghanaian unit has contracted about 400,000 hectares of land, with up to 60 percent reserved for biofuel production, “not less” than 30 percent for food production and the remainder for biodiversity buffer zones.
Apr 21
It’s not a “food” crisis, it’s a Hunger Crisis
According to the World Food Programme, 925 million people across the world currently do not have enough to eat. That number is increasing.
Apr 20
Global Food Crisis, Biofuels and Land Grabs in Ghana
How consecutive governments have allowed and fuelled the rape of Ghanaians The time has never been riper for the people of Ghana to speak out about the terrible negligence of consecutive governments who have allowed horrendous land grabs by foreign nationals for the production of questionable biofuels from jatropha while the world is facing a …
Apr 18
Relax biofuel laws to help ease the food crisis, World Bank says
THE World Bank has called for the relaxation of laws requiring crops to be blended into petrol, saying that they are contributing to the global food price crisis.
Mar 30
Jatropha biofuel push in Ghana runs up against protests
ACCRA, Ghana (AlertNet) – In Ghana, whether the biofuel crop jatropha will pluck rural farmers from poverty and reduce carbon emissions or displace farmers and gobble up land that could produce food depends very much on who you ask.
Mar 30
Diversion of lands for bio-fuel poses challenge to food security – Prof Danso
Accra, March 3 GNA – A retired Lecturer at the Soil Science Department, University of Ghana on Wednesday warned that the diversion of agricultural lands for the production of bio-fuels posed a treat to global food security.
Mar 30
Food Security Threatened in Ghana – Land grabs for biofuel and governments’ neglect to blame
In 2010 FSG reported on a report, compiled by international environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth (FoE), that says that the amount of land being taken in Africa to feed Europe’s increasing demand for biofuels is “underestimated and out of control.”
Mar 22
Jatropha as biofuel causes more carbon emissions – Report
A new study says biofuels from the non-food plant, Jatropha are dangerous to the environment. These fuels seen as an alternative energy source, according to the study by three groups, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, ActionAid and Nature Kenya, could cause up to six times more carbon emissions than fossil fuels.
Oct 18
Global consultations on cassava as bio-fuel open
Accra, Oct. 18, GNA – Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Monday noted that the commercial cultivation of cassava as an alternative source of bio-energy, would not compromise Ghana’s agricultural lands or threaten its food security.