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Article

27 Giu 2007

Author:
GRAIN

No to the agrofuels craze!

GRAIN has just published a special issue of Seedling which focuses on biofuels, or as we like to call them, agrofuels...[W]e have discovered that the stampede into agrofuels is causing enormous environmental and social damage...Precious ecosystems are being destroyed and hundreds of thousands of indigenous and peasant communities are being thrown off their land...It is abundantly clear that we can only halt climate change by challenging the absurdity and the waste of the globalised food system as organised by the transnational corporations. Far from contributing to the solution, biofuels will only make a bad situation worse...