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Agrofuels in the Americas (Paperback)
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Agrofuels in the Americas
Behind the hype and misinformation surrounding agrofuels lie the
wrenching realities of hunger and poverty, the loss of land for
food production, destructive agricultural practices, the
advancement of genetically modified crops and synthetic organisms;
and land use changes that lead to a loss of irreplaceable biomes,
contribute to global warming, and diminish planetary
biodiversity.
Industrialized countries, unable to meet their renewable fuel
mandates, have turned to the agricultural resources of the Global
South to fill their energy needs. In Latin America, Northern
corporations and Southern elites have locked up vast tracts of land
for industrial monocrop agrofuels: cutting down rainforests,
plowing up diverse native savannahs, and destroying the future
fertility of the land with short-sighted agricultural
practices.
Agrofuels provide agricultural corporations with an opportunity to
squeeze more profit out of both food and fuel. Financial
institutions looking for solid ground in a stagnating economy have
jumped into the fray, pouring billions of investment dollars and
Euros into agrofuel investments, fanning the flames, and causing
further dislocation and destruction. International Financial
Institutions are backing agrofuels as a trickle-down tool for
'rural development.'
In Latin America, the rural poor and indigenous populations are
losing their access to land; leading to poverty, dislocation and
the inability to grow their own food. Their only recourse often
lies in chasing the relatively few tenuous, seasonal jobs that the
agrofuels industry provides. The agrofuels trade thus places poor
laborers at the bottom of an export-oriented value chain from which
they cannot escape. It has led to food shortages and increased
hunger.
For those familiar with the history of Latin America this is a very
old story cloaked in new "green" clothing. Behind the myth
perpetuated by corporations that we can save the planet through
activities that spin off tremendous environmental and social
externalities lies an ongoing consolidation of corporate power over
our food and fuel systems.
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