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May 31, 2008

How Ethanol Fuels the Food Crisis

Food prices are rising rapidly across the globe, threatening many of the world's poor with starvation. In this update to their May/June 2007 Foreign Affairs article, How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor, C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer argue that the heavily subsidized ethanol industry is exacerbating the food crisis and harming the environment. [JH]

May 31, 2008 in New Publications | Permalink

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