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Posts Tagged agribusiness

Ethanol subsidies could be worsening food scarcity for the poor

By | 10.25.11 | 1:54 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument.

GAO: Despite Increased Funding, U.S. Food Aid Declines

By | 09.30.09 | 4:38 pm

Despite a 53 percent in food aid funding over the last two years, the amount of food delivered to address emergencies abroad fell 5 percent over the same span, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office reported Wednesday. GAO is citing as a culprit a U.S. law requiring that almost More…