Alimentation Agriculture Faim
Du grain pour la bouffe, pas pour le carburant
►http://www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/world-hunger/general-analysis-on-hunger/51810-corn-for-food-not-fuel.html?itemid=id#1291
By Colin A. Carter and Henry I. Miller
New York Times
July 30, 2012
Given the current drought in 32 US states, this article calls on the Environmental Protection Agency to lower the renewable- fuel standard by 20 percent and divert corn from ethanol production back into the food chain. While corn is indeed a renewable resource, the current ethanol policy rests on false assumptions pushed by the ethanol lobby about how ethanol lowers the price of gasoline and reduces global carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing the renewable-fuel standard would offset nearly half of the expected crop loss and ease the drastic impacts that the drought would otherwise have on inflation, food security and political instability in many parts of the world.