…The rapidly rising demand for crops for fuel has put them into competition with those grown for food, driving food prices higher and affecting what and how much people eat in developing countries…Despite this, in 2008 European Union (EU) member states committed themselves to obtaining 10% of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020…Biofuels are conservatively estimated to have been responsible for at least 30% of the global food price spike in 2008…Industrial biofuels are having disastrous local impacts on food security and land rights in many of the communities where they are grown…Many industrial biofuels do not have lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to fossil fuels...Income levels for biofuel plantation workers are low and labour conditions are poor.