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This article appeared in the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore ". The post title is the title of the article. Why do we present in this blog? Why these few lines are a concentration of geography, contemporary history, stimulate reflection on how we live today.
always study the cultivation of various countries, the underground resources, etc.. Now, after reading the article, you'll know what happens to 107 million tonnes of cereals. Not on the boards, but in the car.
Think about 'up and then talk about it in class. Good reading, read it, is short.
" The grain that food should be turned into fuel. In the United States a quarter of cereals grown in 2009 have fueled cars, not people: according to a study of the Earth Policy Institute who analyzed data from the Department of Agriculture.
The figures show that last year ethanol production rose to record levels thanks to farm subsidies and laws that require vehicles to use increasing amounts of biofuels. "The corn grown for fuel in the U.S. in 2009 would have been enough to feed 330 million people for a year," said Esther Brown, director of the Institute who analyzed the data. Last year, U.S. farmers harvested 107 million tons of cereals, mainly maize, intended to fuel the double of 2007, when then-President George W. Bush urged to increase production by 500% by 2017 in the name energy savings.
According to Brown, the prices have dropped in 2009 due to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929, though "still remain well above the long-term average." Since then there have also been built in the U.S. more than 80 new plants for the production of ethanol with others who will come into operation by 2015, when the U.S. production will rise to 20 billion gallons compared to current revenue. According to Brown, the growing U.S. demand for ethanol has contributed to an increase in world grain prices to record levels between 2006 and 2008.
In 2009 the number of people on Earth hunger has grown to more than one billion people are estimated food program World UN (WFP): "Continuing to devote more and more food to fuel, as it is now mandatory for federal laws, only reinforces the dramatic increase in world hunger." "
This article appeared in the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore ". The post title is the title of the article. Why do we present in this blog? Why these few lines are a concentration of geography, contemporary history, stimulate reflection on how we live today.
always study the cultivation of various countries, the underground resources, etc.. Now, after reading the article, you'll know what happens to 107 million tonnes of cereals. Not on the boards, but in the car.
Think about 'up and then talk about it in class. Good reading, read it, is short.
" The grain that food should be turned into fuel. In the United States a quarter of cereals grown in 2009 have fueled cars, not people: according to a study of the Earth Policy Institute who analyzed data from the Department of Agriculture.
The figures show that last year ethanol production rose to record levels thanks to farm subsidies and laws that require vehicles to use increasing amounts of biofuels. "The corn grown for fuel in the U.S. in 2009 would have been enough to feed 330 million people for a year," said Esther Brown, director of the Institute who analyzed the data. Last year, U.S. farmers harvested 107 million tons of cereals, mainly maize, intended to fuel the double of 2007, when then-President George W. Bush urged to increase production by 500% by 2017 in the name energy savings.
According to Brown, the prices have dropped in 2009 due to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929, though "still remain well above the long-term average." Since then there have also been built in the U.S. more than 80 new plants for the production of ethanol with others who will come into operation by 2015, when the U.S. production will rise to 20 billion gallons compared to current revenue. According to Brown, the growing U.S. demand for ethanol has contributed to an increase in world grain prices to record levels between 2006 and 2008.
In 2009 the number of people on Earth hunger has grown to more than one billion people are estimated food program World UN (WFP): "Continuing to devote more and more food to fuel, as it is now mandatory for federal laws, only reinforces the dramatic increase in world hunger." "
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