Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
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Record-high palm oil prices due to voracious global demand for the oil used for food and now increasingly as a biofuel have left many ordinary Indonesians without their usual culinary fare.
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A U.N. expert on Friday called the growing practice of converting food crops into biofuel "a crime against humanity," saying it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy  reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate  change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food  prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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Business & money: Â· Call to catch up with big energy crop producersÂ· Concerns over food supply are 'absolute nonsense'
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JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - Whether he's serving slow-cooked chicken or marinated soybean, Indonesian chef William Wongso sees spicing up his dishes with unusual local ingredients as key to his mission to promote the archipelago's diverse cuisine.
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RADCLIFFE, Iowa -- Corn farmer Jim Handsaker has found a slew of ways to ride the heartland boom in biofuels that is reshaping the economy of rural Iowa.
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With ingredients such as high  cholesterol coconut milk, clarified butter and sugar cane, the  traditional Malaysian diet may be among the most unhealthy  cuisines in the world.
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The perceived risk of relying on foreign oil and the desire to create fuel from domestic sources guarantees that biofuels will become competitive with crude oil. In Autopia.
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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Indonesia's traditional soybean cake,  known as tempeh, is a source of livelihood for millions of  people, many of whom are now struggling to cope with spiraling  soybean prices.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A body tasked with shaping European Union policy on  biofuels is dominated by companies with a vested interest in  promoting this source of energy, environmentalists have claimed.
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The global food business is gargantuan and growing fast.
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The rapidly growing biofuel industry will push farm commodity prices higher in coming years, a study says.
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Flatbread prices rising in Mexico Demand for eco-friendly bio-fuels in the US is being blamed for a massive rise in the price of corn in Mexico. The recent 400 per cent increase in the price of a tortilla has driven thousands of Mexico's poorest people onto the streets in protest.â¦
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As oil prices keep setting new record highs, there are growing concerns that Asia's energy-hungry economies can no longer continue absorbing the impact with crude creeping toward 60 dollars a barrel.