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    The World Bank has projected that food prices will stay high or go even higher over the next couple of years, and biofuels are a major factor. "Biofuels is no doubt a significant contributor" Zoellick says. "It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food." Full Article at NPR
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    Robert Zoellick – Robert Zoellick SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
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World Bank Chief: Biofuels Boosting Food Prices
  1. I think you have a perfect storm of things coming together
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
  2. The price of a loaf of bread ... has more than doubled. Poor people in Yemen are now spending more than a quarter of their incomes just on bread.
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
  3. It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
  4. Those combinations of events have led to an emergency situation
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
  5. In Bangladesh a two-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about half of the daily income of a poor family
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
  6. You have some of those countries moving to a different diet. So more meats require more grains. You have the biofuels expansion, which is a big source of demand.
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago
  7. All this together has led to a real reduction in food stocks
    SOURCE: NPR 19 months ago

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