Grassroots International

A daylong event that will explore Biofuels from a multi-sectoral, global perspective, and debate the question of whether Biofuel production is endangering our food security.

Featuring Saulo Araujo, Grasroots' Global Programs Assistant and a Senior Fellow at the Environmental Leadership Program and George Naylor, President of the National Family Farm Coalition in the workshop "Biofuel-Food Complex" and Grassroots' Resource Rights Specialist Corrina Steward in the Food vs. Fuel debate.

Tufts University’s School of Nutrition
150 Harrison Ave.
Boston, MA 02111
October 13th 8:30—3:30

When something sounds too good to be true, it often is.

Clean, green, biofuels that magically reduce dependance on fossil fuels and reduce global warming with no negative impacts are a myth.

Our friends at the IRC Americas program are continuing to cover the realities of the booming agrofuel industry: increased hunger, consolidation of the food and farming system and environmental degradation and decreased human rights, food sovereignty and local autonomy.

Here's their latest article, by Laura Carlsen,  the director of the Americas Program, based in Mexico City.

Victor M. Quintana is an adviser to the Frente Democrático Campesino de Chihuahua , researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez and collaborator with the Americas Policy Program, at www.americaspolicy.org. He works with the Rural Coalition and the Via Campesina, Mexico and has spoken and written widely about agrofuels, especially about their impact on the price of staple foods like tortillas in Mexico.