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http://www.strategy-business.com/media/file/leading_ideas-20080422.pdf
more GHG emissions than cellulosic ethanol development economics division of the Food and because
the corn must be cultivated and distilled, Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations; …
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http://siteresources.worldbank.org/IDA/Resources/IDA-Gender-Impact.pdf
a sustained around 86 percent. productivity increase of basic food crops is
one of the most vital factors in achieving The share of women in non-agriculture …
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http://www.oilwatch.org/doc/boletin/bole60en.pdf
were growing in the field. However, they take up valuable land that should be used for growing food, especially in poor Third
World countries. Realistic estimates show that making biofuels from energy crops requires more fossil fuel energy than …
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http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/quito_declaration.pdf
POTENTIALLY AFFECTED BY AGROFUELS The organizations present at the International Agro Fuel and Food Sovereignty Meeting, held
in Quito from the 27th to the 29th of June 2007, want to express our concern over the political agrarian proposals made…
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http://www.globalcommunity.org/timeline/57/TIMELINE57.pdf
January no matter where we live. But at what cost to the people who live in the country where the food is produced, to the small
farmers, to the workers in the field, to the land it is produced on, even to the quality of the food itself? Is what we…
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http://www.soilfoodweb.com/04_news/documents/09_06SFIE-zine.pdf
and Events a. Holiday closures (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year) b. Soil Foodweb Advisors teaching at NOFA
Course in Organic Land Care c. Chuck Sherzi teaching at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University d. …
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http://hubbert.mines.edu/news/Pimentel_98-2.pdf
and distillation processes. Energy Balance The conversion of corn and some other food/feed crops into ethanol by
fermentation is a well known and established technology. In a large and efficient plant with economies of scale, the y…
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http://www.c4aqe.org/IS_ETHANOL_VIABLE/Pimentel-Cornell%202003.pdf
to water pollution and air pollution. Increasing the cost of food and diverting human food
resources to the costly inefficient production of ethanol fuel raise major ethical qu…
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http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2006/com2006_0845en01.pdf
opportunities such as those offered by biofuels. In addition, while farmers cannot cultivate food crops on set-aside land,
they can use this land for non- food crops including biofuels; an energy crop credit is available for biofuels, and…
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http://www.millenniumvillages.org/docs/news/press/FT_03June2008.pdf
complex problems in the world's poorest continent, to take place in the middle of a food crisis. Thirty
years after the first "green revolution" transformed agriculture in Asia and Latin America, as new seed var…
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http://www.oilendgame.com/pdfs/Implementation/WtOEg_FAQs.pdf
oil use without subsidy. This wouldn't raise land or water problems, nor interfere with producing food crops.
2 Q. Who is going to take the lead o…
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http://www.earthshare.org/06climatechange/07WarmingAffectsCrops.pdf
over the past quarter century has led to a fall in the yield of some of the most important food crops in the world, according to
one of the first scientific studies of how climate change has affected cereal crops. Rising temperatures betwee…
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http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics/naics_04.pdf
and Noncitrus Fruit Farming XXX Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production XXXX food crops Grown Under
Cover XXXX Nursery and Floriculture Production XXX Other Crop Farming XXXX Tobacco Farming XXXX
Cotto…
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http://www.awarenessday.org/pdf/padogwastetimelineadobeformat.pdf
involved with agriculture as it pertains to run-off into our water ways and EPA is involved with food safety, but largely as it
relates to pesticides. The Department of Agriculture would be the more appropriate agency to offer a position as it rel…
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http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB2/pb2ch2.pdf
and oil shale is likely only to slow the decline in world oil production.15 The Oil Intensity of Food Modern agriculture depends
heavily on the use of gasoline and diesel fuel in tractors for plowing, planting, cultivating, and har- vesting. Irrig…
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http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/pb3ch9.pdf
9 Feeding Eight Billion Well In April 2005, the World Food Programme and the Chinese
gov- ernment jointly announced that food aid shipments to China would stop at the end of the year. For a country where …
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http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2008/Coverage/CSMonitor_Why_Europe_backpedals_on_biofuel_targets_080708.pdf
Features Why Europe backpedals on biofuel targets Ethanol and other biofuels are boosting food prices and greenhouse gases,
says a new British report. By Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / July 8, 2008 editi…
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http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2008/Coverage/EurActiv_MEPs_seek_to_cut_biofuel_goal_080708.pdf
prices, energy security and climate change. Indeed, biofuels, which are mainly produced from food crops such as wheat, maize,
sugar cane and vegetable oils, were seen as a key means of diversifying energy supply and cutting greenhouse gas em…
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http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/draftstatements/climagechange7.pdf
of extreme heat. Critical temperature thresholds above which ecosystems and crop systems (e.g. food crops such as rice and wheat)
suffer increasingly severe damage are likely to be exceeded more frequently. In a warmer climate, the water vapor c…
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http://www.methanol.org/pdf/Pimentel_NatResourRes_Jun%202003.pdf
to water pollution and air pollution. Increasing the cost of food and diverting human food
resources to the costly inefficient production of ethanol fuel raise major ethical qu…
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