Biofuels push out peasants

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a report for their food summit that condemns biofuels for not only adding to the global food crisis, but also for pushing out low-income peasant farmers from their land, says Reuters:

"'Specific social groups such as pastoralists, shifting cultivators and women are especially liable to suffer exclusion from land caused by rising land values, while people who are already landless are likely to see the barriers to land access increase further,' [the report] said."

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