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"We're Only at the Beginning of the Food Crisis"
by Alexander Miller
Thursday, Jun. 26, 2008 at 8:45 AM
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization held a summit in Rome in June 2008 to discuss the global food crisis. Assistant Director Alexander Miller speaks about the rising oil prices, the risk of biofuels and how agriculture could be transformed
"We have to practice agriculture so that it captures carbon rather than releases it."
"20 to 50 percent of the hike in food frices is the result of the demand for biofuel plants."
to read the interview published in: Spiegel Online, June 2008, click on
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,557147,00.html
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