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Meals Per Gallon  ActionAid launches campaign on biofuels Photo: Atul Loke/Panos/ActionAid
Flickr  Photo: Nic’s Events  The UK government  is currently planning  how it will meet reduced emissions targets for the transport sector set by the EU
Flickr Photo: Left to right,  diby  graham,  david.nikonvscannon The government should be changing attitudes towards transport and encouraging investment in cleaner technologies +
Instead, it is planning to get 10% of all transport fuel from biofuels by 2020
Targets like the UK’s could force an additional  600 million  people into hunger by 2020 photo credit:  ActionAid Photo: ActionAid Ban Van Tuan is a Vietnamese farmer whose family has been trapped by global food price rises. Everyone has to skip at least one meal a day to cut costs.
Flickr  photo:  Kevin  Lallier This is because biofuels are usually made from crops such as maize, wheat and sugar which should be on a plate rather than in a petrol tank
In the developing world agricultural land is being grabbed to meet the demand for biofuel crops Photo Credit: Tim Rice/ActionAid
Local people are losing their land without consultation or compensation which means they can no longer feed their families Photo: James   Oatway/PANOS/ActionAid “ Our livelihood was dependent on the farms – and they’ve taken the farms.” Julio Ngoene, village chief and farmer, Mozambique, November 2009
Unbelievably, many industrial biofuels are actually worse for climate change than the fossil fuels they are designed to replace Flickr  Photo :Matt and Kim  Rudge
And, fertilisers used to grow biofuels release nitrous oxides which are  AT LEAST 300  times more damaging  to the climate than carbon dioxide Flickr  Photo:  selfhatingotaku
ActionAid has launched a  campaign to pressure  the UK government  to put the breaks  on biofuel production Flickr  Photo: Johannes  Pape
We are calling for an end to the  government subsidies and financial  incentives for biofuels which are  driving land grabbing in the developing world
We need your help to convince the government that putting poor people’s food into cars is a   bad   idea
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[object Object],‘ What we want is to get our farms back because that is what our livelihood is dependent on...  we are dying of hunger and  there is nothing that we have  that is actually our own.’ Matilde Ngoene, mother and farmer, Mozambique, November 2009 Photo: James Oatway/Panos/ActionAid
www.actionaid.org.uk

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ActionAidUK Biofuels campaign introduction

  • 1. Meals Per Gallon ActionAid launches campaign on biofuels Photo: Atul Loke/Panos/ActionAid
  • 2. Flickr Photo: Nic’s Events The UK government is currently planning how it will meet reduced emissions targets for the transport sector set by the EU
  • 3. Flickr Photo: Left to right, diby graham, david.nikonvscannon The government should be changing attitudes towards transport and encouraging investment in cleaner technologies +
  • 4. Instead, it is planning to get 10% of all transport fuel from biofuels by 2020
  • 5. Targets like the UK’s could force an additional 600 million people into hunger by 2020 photo credit: ActionAid Photo: ActionAid Ban Van Tuan is a Vietnamese farmer whose family has been trapped by global food price rises. Everyone has to skip at least one meal a day to cut costs.
  • 6. Flickr photo: Kevin Lallier This is because biofuels are usually made from crops such as maize, wheat and sugar which should be on a plate rather than in a petrol tank
  • 7. In the developing world agricultural land is being grabbed to meet the demand for biofuel crops Photo Credit: Tim Rice/ActionAid
  • 8. Local people are losing their land without consultation or compensation which means they can no longer feed their families Photo: James Oatway/PANOS/ActionAid “ Our livelihood was dependent on the farms – and they’ve taken the farms.” Julio Ngoene, village chief and farmer, Mozambique, November 2009
  • 9. Unbelievably, many industrial biofuels are actually worse for climate change than the fossil fuels they are designed to replace Flickr Photo :Matt and Kim Rudge
  • 10. And, fertilisers used to grow biofuels release nitrous oxides which are AT LEAST 300 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide Flickr Photo: selfhatingotaku
  • 11. ActionAid has launched a campaign to pressure the UK government to put the breaks on biofuel production Flickr Photo: Johannes Pape
  • 12. We are calling for an end to the government subsidies and financial incentives for biofuels which are driving land grabbing in the developing world
  • 13. We need your help to convince the government that putting poor people’s food into cars is a bad idea
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