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Biofuels Dossier

October 3, 2008

Biofuels are seen as one of the alternative energy sources of the future but the production and viability of the sector is currently one of the most contentious topics on the international energy agenda.

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The food-energy question has been dogging the biofuels industryImage: AP

Biofuels are seen as one of the alternative energy sources of the future but the production and viability of the sector is currently one of the most contentious topics on the international energy agenda.

Here, DW-WORLD.DE looks at the most recent developments in the biofuels debate in this dossier of news articles, features and exclusive interviews.

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Reports & Analysis

LP 1206 Biofuels

englisch: LP 1206 Biofuels - Produziert: 11.06.2008 - 18:41:27 von Cinnamon Nippard
June 11, 200805:54 min

ie biofuels

englisch: ie biofuels - Produziert: 13.05.2008 - 14:11:36 von Kyle
May 17, 200805:18 min

Pod18042nd Gener. Biofuels

englisch: Pod18042nd Gener. Biofuels - Produziert: 18.04.2008 - 18:30:39 von Hessler
April 18, 200803:17 min
Rapeseed field

An Agent for Change?

The EU's decision to reduce its biofuel quota may help the production of more viable alternatives.
September 16, 2008
Farmers ride carts loaded with sugar cane into the Simbhaoli Integrated Sugar Complex which houses the ethanol plant at Simbhaoli, Uttar Pradesh, India

Viable Alternatives

DW-WORLD.DE talked to Prof. Eva-Mari Aro about the current developments in alternative biofuels.
September 15, 2008
A rapeseed field

Under the Scanner

The European Union is launching formal anti-subsidy probes into biofuel imports from the US.
June 13, 2008

Calls for a rethink on biofuels as rising food prices threaten millions with hunger - je 16.04.2008 8

In Haiti, there have been renewed clashes over the price of rice. The government had announced cost cutting measures on the weekend after food riots killed at least five people but Haitians say so far nothing has changed. International agencies have appealed for emergency funds to help people there and elsewhere who are finding it increasingly difficult to pay for food. Record oil prices, rising demand in Asia and the use of crops for biofuels are all pushing up prices across the globe.
April 16, 2008undefined min

Those protests around the world over increasing food prices are a result in part to pumped up production of biofuels - 15.04.2008 08

Those protests around the world over increasing food prices are a result in part to pumped up production of biofuels. Critics say biofuels take up too much farmland--at the cost of food production. The EU has defended the use of biofuel to cut harmful CO2 emissions, but now says it may cut back the 90 million euros a year it pays to subsidise fuel from the farm. +++SYN+MAZ+++
April 15, 2008undefined min

Mozambique - Biofuels to boost the economy - Global 3000, 21.04.2008

Mozambique is one country hoping to benefit from industrialised countries' thirst for biofuels. A large-scale government program aims to make available some 40 million hectares of land to grow jatropha - that's half the country's land for cultivation. The government says it's only setting aside land that was previously unused for agriculture. Jatropha is a noxious grassland plant that's ideally suited to producing bioethanol. We visited one farm that has set its goal on entering the export market. A South African entrepreneur invests 30 thousand Euros a month in the project, which has created hundreds of new jobs for locals.
April 22, 200804:28 min
A biofuel gas pump

The Biofuel Debate

Biofuels were once embraced as green alternative to oil, but now that may not be the case.
April 25, 2008