In Brazil, which is the world’s biggest sugarcane producer, the federal government realized this scenario offered a great opportunity for transforming the country into the world’s biggest ethanol...
An open letter to the Prime Ministers and Energy Ministers of all EU Member States:Dear Prime Ministers,Dear Energy Ministers,Within a month your government and other European Union member states...
Last week saw the marking of World Food Day, a day when people around the world raise awareness around a scandalous fact – that 1 in 8 people on the planet goes to bed hungry every night.Hunger has...
Today MEPs across Europe turned their backs on the world’s poor and their own constituents as they voted through a 6% cap on food based biofuels in Europe.It’s been a nail biting few days waiting to...
I’m blogging on how civil society might strategically engage with the G20. Here are two areas in which the G20 could take a significant step forward towards ending poverty and ensuring economic...
Due to EU policies on biofuels, including generous subisidies, EU biofuels consumption is expected to double between 2010 and 2020. However, this is having a massive impact on poor communities around...
In a major shift in its biofuels policy, the European Commission today announced that it was limiting the use of biofuels made from food crops in its renewable energy targets. But late changes to the...
Last week in Rome, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced that there are almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in the world. Controversially though, the FAO also...
In 2008, ActionAid started campaigning to remove biofuels targets that are having a detrimental effect on poor and marginalised communities around the world. We did so in response to calls from...
Over the last few years we’ve been showing how the European Union’s biofuels targets have led to land grabs and food insecurity in developing countries. Europe’s thirst for fuel has had a huge...
