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Biofuels Campaign
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
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Description: EU biofuel consumption is set to jump nearly fourfold in response to new EU rules setting a 10% target for renewable energy use in transport by 2020. Consequently the displacement of farming families is gathering speed as multinationals acquire land for biofuels with little or no consultation or compensation. Photo: Camille Bethoux/ActionAid
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Description: To highlight this, ActionAid activists reclaim land under the Eiffel Tower. European companies have already acquired or are in negotiations for at least five million hectares of land in developing countries, an area larger than Denmark. Photo: Camille Bethoux/ActionAid
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: Bulldozers clearing large areas of indiginous hard wood forests for foreign owned palm oil plantations, in Kalangala, on the island of Bugala, Lake Victoria, Uganda. Photo: Kate Holt/ActionAid
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: A family outside their home. HungerFREE is working in Kalanagala to try and mobilise people about their rights in relation to land owndership and food production. Photo: Kate Holt/ActionAid
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: The "biofools" campaign kicks off in Cadorna Square, Milan. For April 1st, they distributed 1,500 biofuel cans with the slogan "fight with us against biofuels, they only produce hunger (fame)". Photo: ActionAid
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The EU wants at least 10 per cent of transport fuels to come from renewable sources within the next 10 years. This target will be met in the main by industrial biofuels. These policies will have a disastrous impact on the world’s poor as food prices rise and could push 600 million extra people into hunger by 2020. Photo: ActionAid
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: The placard reads: 50 litres of ethanol = 134.5 kilos of maize = 1 year of food for a baby.
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: The 'La Ayuda' community in Coatepeque, Guatemala, has 72 families affected by the growth of palm oil plantations in the region. They are losing their lands, food production is decreasing and water is now being used for palm oil irrigation, leaving the communities with no water during the dry season. In this picture, Rosalba Garcia. Photo: Leo Liberman/ActionAid
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Description: Elisa Mongue from Mozambique is a single mother, had her farm land taken by a biofuel company. "The only land that I have has been destroyed. We are just suffering of hunger, because even if I go to look for another farm, they will just destroy it again."
Photo: James Oatway/Panos Pictures
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: MS ActionAid Denmark staff and volunteers participate take over land in front of the Danish parliament. March 30th 2010. The banner reads "Food should feed people not motors. 1 billion people are starving – stop biofuels". Photo: Peter Bischoff/Actionaid
- April 1st "Biofools" stunt
- Description: Using industrial biofuels means putting poor people’s food into rich people’s cars – this is lunacy in a world where one billion people are hungry. Photo: Peter Bischoff/Actionaid
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- Description: And if that wasn’t catastrophic enough, there is also strong scientific evidence that industrial biofuels will be even worse for the climate than the fossil fuels they were designed to replace. Photo: Peter Bischoff/Actionaid
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Hunger and climate change are two of the greatest problems facing humanity today. Unbelievable as it may sound, the EU and other developed countries have found a way to make both problems worse: biofuels. Read how biofuels are not the answer to climate change Photo: Atul Loke/Panos/ActionAid
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