Article on the BBC neatly sums up the recent comments by Jean Zigler on how biofuels have been seized on by NGOs, lobbyists and climate change apologists as a way forward - without considering the economic implications of such a position. One day, all NGOs will employ economists [height for once being unimportant], and they will listen to them ...
Some NGOs already have clever economists in their midst, but far too few! - here is Annie Dufey's work and a publication from ODI that lays out the links and hence the risks from meddling with core livelihood-supporting functions of the economies of developing countries.
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