Energy and the Food Crisis

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Agrofuels Critics | Agrofuels Proponents | Climate Change

Agrofuels Critics

Stress Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged
[TIME — United States]
This is why Congress included the stress tests along with a huge biofuels mandate in its 2007 energy bill, ...

Agrofuels and the Environment — Spanish and English (3:55)

Alberto Gomez of Via Campesina (Mexico) speaks at a public forum organized by USC and its Canadian partners. The message from the forum was clear: our global agriculture is already stretched to the limit and not producing enough food. Biofuels (also known as agrofuels) production is simply making hunger worse. Watch this video.

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Agrofuels Proponents

Agrofuels in Virginia — Virginia Farm Bureau (2:33)

Sherri McKinney explains why Virginia farmers would like to see more incentives for biofuels from the next Virginia General Assembly. Watch this video.

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Climate change and the food crisis

Global Warming Linked to Hunger
From the Presbyterian Hunger Program

Lessons from Northeast Brazil: "You can’t fight the environment"
From Grassroots International

Climate Justice Now!
From Grassroots International

The perfect storm: the biofuel contribution to the global food crisis

Climate Change and our Wacky Food System
Workshop Presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett for Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary “Mending Our Earth” Teach-In, 2007

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• Handout (optional) — “Energy, Food and You: On the Path to Reconciliation.” essay by Andrew Kang Bartlett in Church & Society magazine (page 17)

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