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Tag Archives: ethanol
Pile it On
This summer the Illinois Corn Marketing Board and Illinois Corn Growers decided to focus on getting positive messages regarding corn to young consumers utilizing the internet. Megan Ott and Danny Harms have produced a series of tongue-in-cheek YouTube videos. In this video, Danny and Megan take a look at one myth surrounding the corn based ethanol debate. Check it out… [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ORpM3PEJ1QU]
Purdue University Weighs In on What’s Driving Food Prices
The Farm Foundation recently released a report prepared by Purdue University agricultural economists on the forces driving food price increases. They conclude that higher food prices are the result of the complex interaction of global changes in supply and demand for commodities, the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, as well as growth in production of biofuels. According to the authors, these factors have combined to rapidly raise demand for U.S. grains beyond current production, leading Read More >
UK Study Highlights Uncertainty in Calculating Indirect Land Use Emissions
Britain’s Renewable Fuels Agency this week released the Gallagher Review, a report on the indirect effects of biofuels production that was prompted by the Searchinger and Fargione studies published in Science earlier this year. (See this blog’s earlier post on the forthcoming study.) The summary of the conclusions of the Gallagher Review include some very telling comments: Quantification of GHG emissions from indirect land-use change requires subjective assumptions and contains considerable uncertainty. “Current lifecycle analyses Read More >
Not a Secret After All
On Friday July 4, The Guardian newspaper of London published a story (“Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis”) about a “confidential,” unpublished World Bank report it had obtained purportedly demonstrating that biofuels are responsible for 75 percent of the global rise in food prices. “The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body,” according to The Guardian. In Read More >
More Biofuels Bashing
Exactly a month ago, Roll Call newspaper revealed that the Grocery Manufacturers Association had launched a PR campaign to roll back U.S. biofuel policy. GMA is once again on the offensive, releasing an industry-funded study that blames biofuels for higher food prices, ignoring the rapid increase in the price of oil that is driving up the costs of agricultural production and increasing demand for alternatives. Kraft Foods sponsored the recent study by Keith Collins, Ph.D., Read More >
