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Information about biofuels/bioenergy and poverty.

Resources

Another Inconvenient Truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change (PDF file).

Climate change, biofuels and eco-social impacts in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado (PDF file). by Donald Sawyer. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Volume 363, February 2008, Pages 1747–1752.
- This article discusses the risk of land degradation and negative socioeconomic impacts (such as inequities in income distribution and hikes in food prices) in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado regions as a result of biofuels expansion, and offers policy recommendations to mitigate these impacts.

Biofuel use 'increasing poverty', 25 June 2008, BBC News: "The replacement of traditional fuels with biofuels has dragged more than 30 million people worldwide into poverty", according to an Oxfam report.
- Read the report, Another Inconvenient Truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change (PDF file).

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