For some time now the rising cost of food all over the world has taken households, governments and the media by storm.

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Global biofuel production grew 20% in 2007. The U.S. and Brazil now produce 95% of the world's ethanol, and Germany leads in biodiesel production.

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More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a "silent tsunami" of sharply rising food prices, which have sparked riots around the world and threaten U.N.-backed feeding programs for 20 million children, the top U.N. food official said Tuesday.

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Despite clear warnings about the impact of agrofuels (commonly referred to as biofuels) on the world food supplies, those within the industry think that Europe's 10% target is not high enough.

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Bolivian President Evo Morales has told a UN forum that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change.

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The European commission is backing away from its insistence on imposing a compulsory 10% quota of biofuels in all petrol and diesel by 2020, a central plank of its programme to lead the world in combating climate change.

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Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply.

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Scientists, food activists, and corporate and government representatives agreed last week on the necessity of a new agricultural revolution toward small-scale, sustainable practices to meet global food, development, and environmental crises.

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The difficult balancing act between fighting hunger, producing biofuels and defending the environment is at the centre of the debate at the 30th Regional Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the Brazilian capital.

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Food riots in the world's poorest countries are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine that indicate the onset of the brewing global food crisis, according to a global farmers' organization.

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Scientists tasked with advising the European Union's policy-makers have called for a target on promoting the greater use of biofuels to be dropped.

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n March 14, activist group "Agrofools" closed down the World Biofuels Market meeting in Brussels by sealing four sets of double doors with padlocks and chains and barring access with their bodies just before the official opening.

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Many of us think we're doing the climate and the environment a big favor when we consider meeting our liquid fuel needs through biodiesel. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but it's time to think again.

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Two studies published in the journal Science last week have reinforced the urgency of moving quickly to a second generation of biofuels.

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Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these "green" fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded.

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Biofuels risk failing to deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from transport and could even be environmentally damaging unless the Government puts the right policies in place warns a new Royal Society report.

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A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.

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The development of an international market for crop-based fuels could reduce climate changing gas emissions and mitigate the inflationary impacts of the current euphoria surrounding this energy alternative, but it is a process that will take years.

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BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A body tasked with shaping European Union policy on biofuels is dominated by companies with a vested interest in promoting this source of energy, environmentalists have claimed...

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EU plans to increase the use of biofuels could spell disaster for some of the world's poorest people warns international agency, Oxfam in a new briefing published today.

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A new paper suggests that biofuel production may be contributing to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

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EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for 'agrofuels'. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world's poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming

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Do you 'live to eat' or 'eat to live?' Either way rising food prices are surely going to affect your Bon Appetite.

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Former Senator Tom Daschle argues that corn-based ethanol offers many benefits -- and few downsides for food stocks. Runge and Senauer reply.

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According to officials with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), rapidly rising oil prices and the growing urgency of climate change could spur a major international shift to bio-energy use in little more than a decade.

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