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UN Says Solving Food Crisis Could Cost $30 Billion
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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Faced with an immediate hunger crisis and the need to double food production in the next 30 years, world leaders meeting Tuesday to discuss soaring food prices were mostly in agreement on how the problem could be resolved. (article 1)
Moving into this century, several carmakers have been promoting ethanol (blended with gasoline) as a way to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil and to reduce emissions. (article 3)
Blended to run your vehicle's engine in the typical 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline that is known in the fuel industry as " E85 a gallon of E85 has just 70 percent of the energy in a gallon of gasoline. (article 3)
Unlike other parts of the United States, the region has a paucity of renewable energy resources that could realistically displace its dependence on fossil fuels. (article 4)
In particular, the sunlight and wind speed are too weak to meet a meaningful portion of the region's prodigious energy needs... at least with today's technology. (article 4)
Sugar cane ethanol costs less to make, has far more energy output per unit of energy input than corn-based ethanol, is more environmentally friendly and is not as important as a basic food. (article 2)
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Ethanol, corn, Coskata, cane, Food |
Source articles
- UN Says Solving Food Crisis Could Cost $30 Billion (nytimes.com, 06/04/2008, 870 words)
- News for Dallas, Texas (dallasnews.com, 06/01/2008, 593 words)
- Ethanol gets a possible comeback (sfgate.com, 06/03/2008, 669 words)
- Competing to fuel the future (cbc.ca, 06/02/2008, 719 words)
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