"food instead of food" warning from FAO
10 August 2012 BBC English
]]Active nation-dependent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) asked the US to limit the production of biofuels.
According to the arrangement in the US, 40 percent of the corn cellar can be divided into the production of ethanol used as fuel. [
Related TopicsEconomy, Environment/Clien, United Nations, the United StatesThe United StatesThe United States has taken into account that the largest damage of corn production in the US, who had the largest season of the last 50 years, the FAO General Director Jose Graziano da Silva, a part of the quota allocated with etano, found in the warning that a global food crisis can experience.
]According to the Food Price Index announced byFAO, a 6-per cent of 6 percent in July was seen.
FAO draws attention to the increase of 26 percent of the price of corn in the USA, attracted attention to 12 percent of the grain and sugar in the world.
According to the assessment made by Oxfam; “The drought in the USA, the world’s first in soy and wheat exports can lead bad results for importers poor countries by affecting international markets. "
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