Balancing Biofuel, Food Crops a Challenge for Britain
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Britain has turned much less land over to biofuels than other European countries, such as Germany. But only 2 percent of European agricultural land is used to grow such crops, compared with 20 to 30 percent in the United States.
Michael Mann, the European Union’s spokesman on agriculture, contends the multinational partnership is part of the solution to the world food shortage, not part of the problem.
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