food
The Problem with Biofuel
IPN Opinion article
India wants 20% biofuel content in vehicle fuel by 2017, but turning cheap food into expensive fuel pushes up food prices and damages the environment
Is the world going to run out of food?
IPN Environment Project Director, Caroline Boin, will debate the "countdown to starvation."
Stop turning cheap food into expensive fuel
IPN Opinion article
Biofuels don't make sense for the environment, the economy or the taxpayer.
Famine also caused by bad policies
IPN Opinion article
Some claim that East Africa's looming famine is caused by drought, population or climate change, but the real cause is government policies which hinder subsistence farmers.
Idle Speculation on Hunger
IPN Opinion article
Cracking down on speculation might make politicians feel good but the evidence shows that it had nothing to do with the food crisis: the real cause was bad policies.
