Friday, January 18, 2013

How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala's Food Supply. ThinkProgress

How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala's Food Supply
ThinkProgress
A new report in The New York Times highlights how biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has produced a rolling food catastrophe in Guatemala. The country once enjoyed a nearly self-sufficient level of corn production, but domestic producers ...
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As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala's Hunger Pangs
New York Times
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out ...
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