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Biofuels can help to cause famine



1 day ago LONDON (AFP) - The debate on biofuels like ethanol made from sugar cane, raged in Britain following the Government's chief scientific adviser said represented threat to food production and a danger to the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Rapid biofuels race unleashed in many countries, including Brazil, means that ever more arable land used for biofuel production instead of food, said John Beddington.

The expert, who is lead counsel for issues government scientists Gordon Brown, made clear that the growing priority given to biofuels, just in time when the demand for food has grown strongly in the world, particularly in the Asian giants, China and India, has a negative impact on food production.

In his first major public speech since his appointment to the post of scientific adviser to the Government, Beddington stressed that biofuels are therefore a real danger to the lives of millions of people worldwide.

By launching this warning, Beddington came into conflict with the Brown government, which has pledged to increase the use of biofuels in the next decades.

The marking of the principal scientific advisor to the United Kingdom about the risk of a food crisis in the coming years occurred while the executive director of World Food Program's Josette Sheeran, underline that global food reserves were at their lowest levels in 30 years.

Sheeran blamed the situation to higher fuel prices and agricultural commodities, as well as the effects of climate change and demand for biofuels.

The UN senior official admitted that it outlines a quick solution to rising food prices and fuels, so food prices will remain high for at least the next two years.

Governments need to "study and think more carefully about the link between the acceleration in biofuels and food supply," said Sheeran, noting also that the demand for cereals for biofuels accelerates inflation. Both

launched Beddington Sheeran as urgent calls to politicians, scientists and farmers to seek alternatives to avoid the risk of a food crisis in the coming years.

"It's hard to imagine how the world will be able to produce enough crops to generate renewable energy at the same time meet the enormous need for food, "he said Beddington, which also denounced the destruction of tropical forests to grow biofuels.

The biofuels debate raged at a time when prices of many foods soared last year, which has been attributed in part by the experts to the growing demand for crops that produce biofuels such as palm oil.

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GMOs increase the use of pesticides and do not help fight hunger and poverty, according to Friends of the Earth
MADRID, 13 (EUROPA PRESS)
The transgenic increase pesticide use and do not help fight hunger and poverty, according to a new report by the environmental organization Friends of the Earth, presented simultaneously in Madrid, Brussels (Belgium), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Lagos (Nigeria).

"GM crops have failed to provide the greatest benefits promised. Instead, we find that the increase in pesticide use caused by these crops pose a threat to the environment and the global population" said in a statement for Agriculture of the organization, David Sánchez.

addition, the campaign coordinator of Friends of transgenic of the Earth International in Nigeria, Nnimmo Bassey, criticizes the industry Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) said the African GM crops needed to meet the nutritional needs of the population, though most of these crops are used for animal feed in rich countries or for the production of agrofuels.

Meanwhile, the European coordinator of this campaign, Helen Holder, stresses that the EU is right to address GM crops carefully. "There is growing evidence that worldwide more sustainable agricultural methods provide real solutions, while developing economies and create local employment in rural areas, "he says.

According to this new report, the introduction of GM crops has caused a significant increase in the use of pesticides. For example, studies by the U.S. Government Cultural UP 15 times higher use of herbicide RoundUp (glyphosate) between 1994 and 2005 and the government of Brazil, an increase of almost 80 percent between 2000 and 2004. As a result, herbs are increasingly emerging adventitious (or weeds) resistant to glyphosate worldwide , causing an increase in production costs for farmers and serious environmental impacts.

The study also highlights that GM crops do not solve problems hunger or poverty, because they are used mostly for animal feed and not for the impoverished population.

On the other hand, warns that the multinationals claim that GM cotton has been a great boost to cotton yields, helping to alleviate poverty among farmers, despite these increases in performance are due to climatic conditions favorable, the introduction of irrigation and the purchase of improved seeds that are not genetically modified. It also notes that in many countries, farmers who paid the additional cost of transgenic seeds ended up spending the same money on chemical insecticides that farmers had planted conventional cotton.

Finally, the report indicates that less than 2 percent of the total area of \u200b\u200bcorn grown in the EU is genetically modified and five countries have already banned the Monsanto corn by growing evidence of their environmental impact.

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