FAO says debate over conventional biofuels too simplified

In Belgium, FAO told Euractiv that making overgeneralizations and sweeping statements about biofuels, such as conventional biofuels competing with food or that palm oil destroys forests, are not necessarily true and can be counterproductive. Brazil has demonstrated that both sugar and ethanol can be produced sustainably, while in Indonesia where 45% of high yielding palm oil is produced by small farmers would require a shift to other lower yielding vegetable oil that would demand far more land.