Ecofys releases study showing minimal ethanol impact on food prices

September 5, 2013 |

In the Netherlands, Ecofys has released a report showing that ethanol is not causing food price increases. The study, “Biofuels and Food Security: Risks and Opportunities” highlights that the impact of EU biofuels demand up until 2010 only increased world grain prices by about 1-2%. The Ecofys study examines the casualty between biofuels production, global crop commodity prices and implications for food security with a particular focus on poor regions. The study explains that prices of primary global agricultural commodities from which biofuels are produced are not directly correlated to food prices because both are “disconnected from global markets”.

Category: Fuels

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