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It was the biofuels wot done it

Monday, May 5, 2008 at 08:42AM
Posted by Registered CommenterBishop Hill in

There's a rather important article over at EU Referendum this morning. Richard North highlights a recent FAO report, which shows that changing diet in China and India has not affected their share of the global grain harvest. This puts the kaibosh on the argument that demand for meat production has sucked in huge quantities of grain. The change has in fact largely come from the USA, where production has been shifted massively over to biofuels.

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Reader Comments (2)

No word on the role of oil prices in the price of agri?
May 5, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterNathan Rive
From me, or the FAO?
May 5, 2008 | Registered CommenterBishop Hill

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