Increasing demand for wheat and corn for ethanol

Greater demand for food commodities for fuel use is, and will, seriously affect global food security as the Western world satisfy their demand for oil through biofuels and the poverty stricken struggle to afford to import sufficient quantities of food as world prices rise.

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