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Alleviating Poverty: Food or Energy?

yuti — April 28, 2008 / 11:21 pm

When people find difficulties in gaining food, is bio energy development still relevant? Does food or energy have a correlation with poverty? Both, rice or jatropha can be exchanged with money, but still the question arise, for whom we develop energy cultivation?

According to Michael Ableman, the global food system now faces a crisis of unprecedented levels primarily as the result of its wholesale dependency on fossil fuel. Food supplies are at their most limited levels in recent history, and the price of food continues to climb. Those who are already living in poverty and those who do not have access to land or the skills to grow food are the most at risk. Even the World Bank, which has historically refused to acknowledge agriculture in its quest to encourage industrialization among developing nations, recently stated that “farming must be central to efforts to reduce hunger and poverty.”

Can technology be the answer of food and energy match?

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