ROME (AFP)-The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)Â questioned the benefits of the biofuels and requested a revision of the policies and subsidies to those products, in a report published on Tuesday in Rome.Â

The document that circulates annually under the title ‘The State of Food and Agriculture´ (SOFA), analyzes the advantages and risks of the biofuels. Leer más »

“The biofuels is not the villainous” Â

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Biofuels and agricultural protectionism were topics that dominated the opening day of the conference on alimentary security that began this tuesday in Rome, Italy.Â

The appointment, sponsered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has the presence of 44 chief of States and of government. Leer más »

As it was indicated today by the Director-General of the FAO, Jacques Diouf, during the opening of the Summit about the Alimentary Security that is being carried out in Rome.Â

He noticed that the world peace is in risk. The Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jacques Diouf, requested today to the leaders of the central nations an annual sum of 30.000 M/u$s to achieve the full alimentary security in the world and pointed out that in the richest countries in 2006 food was wasted by value of 100.000 M/u$s and that the excessive consumption on part of the obese represented in that year a sum of the order of 20.000 M/u$s. Leer más »

The club of the developed countries next to the FAO estimated that a third of the rise in next ten years will be explained by the pressure of the fuels elaborated with grains.Â

PARIS (EFE). – A third of the rise of the agricultural products prices, that is to say the foods, that is awaited for the period of 2008-2017 will be explained by the pressure of the biofuels. Leer más »