Agricultural land, meant for food production, is being used for biofuels. It is true that it helps in the battle of global warming but it is also true that it is creating food crisis across the world. The developing countries are becoming the worst-affected regions due to looming food crisis and the shortage of drinking water, natural disasters and rising population are just adding fuel to the fire. We should immediately suspend all biofuel plans now.

Not only biofuels but bad policies clubbed with the production of biofuels has changed the global food scenario. For the citizens of developed country high food prices is not a problem but the story is not same in country like India where food often accounts for more than 50% of income in family.

Almost every food-supplying countries, be it Swedon, Ukrain, Argentina or Brazil, have reduced the the quantity of food export to protect consumers in the countries. It is making things worse in those countries which are highly dependent on food import. Forget the global warming, food for people is necessary and important than anything else. There have already been food riots in several parts of the world and the whole world should invest time to find the solution of food crisis.

The ground situation is much more dangerous than what we read in news article on food crisis. The UN World Food Program says that 850 million people in the world are undernourished and the number may go up because the price of food items have increased 20% in just 365 days. In India, it has gone up by 11% in one year. The price of staple tortilla increased by 400% in Mexico. Food prices have gone up by 17% in South Africa. China has already stopped all the new plans for planting corn for ethanol. other countries should follow the same line.

Biofuel has its own advantages and we cannot blame it for global food crisis because it is up to the countries how they use the land in balanced way. It shouldn't be like the blind race. In the countries like USA, Canada and Brazil, the ethanol industry has become the fastest-growing energy industry. Ethanol has been blended in 30% of country's petrol in USA with full support of major oil companies.

If you blame biofuel as the biggest reason of food crisis across the world, you are wrong, I must say. there are different other factors, ecological and social factors, more dangerous than 'biofuels'. major farming corporations are pulling out of producing food and joining hands with Industrialists for setting up industrial units. The population is rising by 87 million every year. People living in developing countries like India and China are changing the food habits and switching to meat-based diets. Impact of climate change is hit food production level. 1/3rd of fisheries are on the verge of collapse and 2/3rd will be destroyed by 2025. It is happening due to ignoring the agriculture sector in the race of industries development.

Where is the time to blame any person, group and policy? this is high time and people sitting in government should start taking immediate steps to end the crisis. In past 10 years, countries across the world has actually grown less grain but consumed more and it resulted in the food crisis. World stocks of grain are there just for 50 days.

The competition between food and fuel is absolutely wrong. Indian and Chinese are becoming non-vegetarians and it needs more land to feed animals. It takes 7kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef. shortage of water means a shortage of food items in coming days. Don't blame biofuels but poor policies and changed food habit actually.

Agree with you Andrew and let me add some more factors responsible for food crisis, particularly in developing world, such as more intense rains, unpredictable storms, longer-lasting droughts, and interrupted seasons. I am sure the recent floods in United Kingdom are going to create shortage of vegetables and cereals in May.

Yes it should be suspended and even in the United states too. some two years ago, there were less than 100 ethanol plants in US and the plants had the combined production capacity of 5bn gallons. Now, 50 more new plants have been added up in the list and more than 300 are in pipeline. As I know if the number of plants increase like this it would create history of global food crisis even in the US.

The current food crisis would never end and at last people will have the last option- develop habit to live with increased food prices. The time of cheap food is over now. the prices of sugar, milk and cocoa have already touching sky and next in the line are meat and eggs because chicken and pigs are fed mainly on grain. We can see cheap food grains in our dreams not in reality.

The European Union is not ready to stop producing biofuels, for them producing biofuels is not the crime against humanity, it is not threatening food supplies. For them, the climate change is bigger issue than food crisis. They are not ready to suspend the target fixed for biofuels. For them people living in developing countries are not humans, it seems.

Biofuels are in fact dangerous for human lives, the first generation of green fuels, biodiesel and ethanol, are made from wheat, maize, colza, sugar beet. Humans are not getting food grains but it is being used in producing biofuels. It will take some 20 years to plan methods to utilise the second generation sources to produce biofuels. Till then, food crisis would kill a major part of global population, particularly in poor countries.

The developed countries should take an urgent step to review the international biofuel programmes to tackle food crisis. The green policies, including biofuel program of US and EU are creating food shortage across the globe. It would be a blunder if these countries don't stop growing corn to convert it into fuel.

This is an international issue and it should be handles with great care. Riots for food grains have already started in several poor countries and people have violently protested against the rising prices of commodity food items. Similar violent protests have happened in Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal and Cameroon. Protests have been started in countries like India too.

Michelle said it right, we can see the same in Britain too. The price of bread has gone up like hell. the people of Britain are experiencing such inflationary pressures for the first time in years which is actually imported. Everything including, food prices, energy prices, commodity prices are going up and up.

All the developed nations should call an urgent summit and start providing infrastructure to developing countries to enable them for growing more food grains to meet the demand in the domestic markets.

It can be said as just another global divide and competition between the drivers of big vehicles and people who do not have enough food to eat. Which is important fuel of food? The global green policies are going to make the planet blood red in coming days.

Who is responsible for the food crisis? Who else except the man who's brain produced the idea to convert edible and non-edible crops into fuel. earlier it was told that the biofuels would reduce our reliance on oil and it would help in restricting global warming too. But the idea did squeez the agricultural land created food crisis, increasing prices of food grains and vegetables, increased hunger.

No, Brazil is the largest ex­porter of sugar cane-based ethanol in the world and for it, there is no connection between producing biofuel and increasing food prices in several parts of the world. There are other factors like rising demand of meat in Asian markets, entry of multinational corporations in food processing and packaging, presence of strong groups of brokers in food market, and bad weather which damaged the crops and the chain of production to selling to consumers. Brazil is very much clear - we are not going to suspend the biofuels production.

The European Union, the United States, Canada and Brazil have set ambitious goals for increasing biofuel consumption and reducing its dependence on crude oil. These countries have enough food grains to feed their population and they have converted several bigger farmlands to grow biofuel crops. One-fourth of US cornfields in US now supply biofuel plants and it resulted in the 100% rise in the price of corn in the country. They can sustain and pay more to buy it but we cannot.

It is common sense. Having something to eat is more important than driving your car.

Biofuel goals are as important as food crises measures. You cannot set aside one from the other. If you do so, then problems will soon be coming if you don’t anticipate possible setbacks of any of these two issues.

Some should focus on solving the food crises; while others can look over biofuel sources.