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Can family farmers benefit from bio-fuels?
Author: FM Editorial team (—.kpn.net)
Date: 16-Dec-2010 10:42
With the world’s reserves of oil going down, governments and companies have started looking for alternatives. A global market for bio-fuels has been developing during the past ten years, which was one of the factors that contributed to the sharp increase in food prices in 2008. Since then, the cultivation of crops for bio-fuels, such as jatropha, has been a hot topic in the international development debate. Are bio-fuels an opportunity for small-scale farming?
Read the view from Flemming Nielsen and Mariann Bassey in Farming Matters magazine, Volume 26 – Number 4 – Partnership for learning (page 28-29) or copy/paste the following link into your browser: http://tinyurl.com/2urunay
