This briefing paper reviews evidence of the impacts of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on food prices, with a focus on corn and soy, and presents new analysis on the impact of the RFS on U.S. livestock farmers. Studies examining the relationship between food prices and biofuel demand conclude …
An Indonesian plantation company has filed the first patent applications for a hybrid variety of palm oil seeds and their production that it expects will increase the crop's yield by several hundred per cent. London Sumatra, a British-founded company now part of the Indofood Group, is confident the new hybrid …
The Union Cabinet has cleared the National Biofuel Policy, and set an indicative 2017 target to blend 20 per cent sugarcane-extracted ethanol with petrol, and non-edible oil with diesel. In the absence of a clear road map ahead, the National Biofuel Coordination Committee headed by the Prime Minister faces an …
Borculo (Netherlands): Set amid cornfields and cow pastures in Holland is a shallow pool that is rapidly turning green with algae, harvested for animal feed, skin treatments, biodegradable plastics
The infamous Chambal Valley, the erstwhile paradise for dacoits, is gearing up for a makeover. Its barren landscape with deep gorges and ravines will soon see wind energy plants and its earth will be used for biofuel. The Chambals will get a makeover With most of the major dacoit gangs
Development of alternative energy should create more than 20 million jobs around the world in coming decades as governments adopt policies to address the depletion of resources, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. Some 2.3 million people around the world already work in alternative energy jobs with half …
Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai September 25, 2008, 0:37 IST Around 150 companies, led by state-owned oil marketing companies and Reliance Industries (RIL), the country's largest private company, have evinced interest in production of biodiesel. The move comes on the back of the government's plan to introduce a 20 per cent …
US agriculture faces the daunting task of growing enough crops to meet the demands of both a hungry world and the booming new biofuels industry while reducing its impact on climate change. That formidable challenge hung over discussions this week at a US soybean industry conference that chewed over topics …
Europe's heated debate over biofuels risks weakening one of the world's best tools to fight climate change and one of the developing world's best hopes for economic growth, Brazil's ambassador to the EU said on Friday. "What I fear is the debate over biofuels has taken on a very emotional …
Ibrahim Hafeezur Rehman Emphasis on promotion of biofuels can be useful for solving rural energy problems. India is a country in transition with recent high rates of economic growth propelling it towards being a global economic power. The sustenance of this economic growth would depend on how the country is …
It did not take long for biofuels to turn from one of the darlings of the environmental movement to the bugbear. As recently as 2004, green groups such as Friends of the Earth were calling for an expansion of biofuels to make road transport greener. Biofuels, derived from plants, are …
Sushmi Dey & G Ganapathy Subramaniam NEW DELHI THE GOVERNMENT has decided not to encourage biofuels at the cost of foodgrain production. While a policy for biofuels has been cleared last week and targets have been set to step up diesel blending, senior government officials are of the view that …
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 11 Envisaging a target of 20 per cent blending of bio-diesel and bio-ethanol by year 2017, the Cabinet today approved the National Policy for Bio-fuels. The Cabinet also approved setting up of a National Bio-fuel Coordination Committee under the chairmanship of Prime Minister and a Bio-fuel Steering …
