{"id":163,"date":"2008-07-07T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-07-07T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T15:27:06","slug":"biofuels-responsible-for-75-of-food-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/163","title":{"rendered":"Biofuels Responsible for 75% of Food Price Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rush to use food crops to make biofuels has caused 75% of the rise in food prices seen between 2002 and Febuary 2008, according to a new, unpublished World Bank report obtained by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, the report found that increased energy and fertiliser costs have only been responsible for 15% of food price increases across the same period.<\/p>\n<p>This is a subject I have been concerned about for some time &#8211; it&#8217;s good to see authoritative, objective support for this coming from such a respected source.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully both EU and US politicians might start to think a little more carefully about their biofuel policies now &#8211; with about half of EU-produced vegetable oil and a third of US corn being used to make biofuels, their incentives have unwittingly distorted global food markets.<\/p>\n<p>An untangling of this mess is urgently needed.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/jul\/03\/biofuels.renewableenergy\" target=\"_blank\">on the Guardian&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biofuels have caused 75% of the food price increases seen since 2002, accoding to a new, in-depth report from the World Bank obtained by the Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[141,322,223,323,325,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}