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Briefing paper

Burning Land, Burning the Climate: The biofuel industry’s capture of EU bioenergy policy

26/10/2016

7 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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There is overwhelming evidence of the harm caused by the European Union’s current bioenergy policy to people in developing countries, to the climate and to Europe’s own sustainable development. The policy is on a collision course with the Paris climate agreement and the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This briefing follows the trail of […]

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Research report

Cereal Secrets: The world’s largest grain traders and global agriculture

03/08/2012

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The world’s largest commodity traders have a significant impact on the modern agri-food system. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, are dominant traders of grain globally and central to the food system, but their role is poorly understood. This report considers the traders – collectively known as the ABCDs – in relation […]

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Journal article

Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview

02/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is considerable controversy over the reasons why. Analysts have pointed to a number of […]

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