Reconsider Biofuels, Says British PM Brown. By Lesley Wroughton, Reuters, April 10, 2008. "Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, called Thursday for a coordinated response led by the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to look at the role played by biofuels in pushing up food prices. 'We need urgently to examine the impact on food prices of different kinds and production methods of biofuels and ensure that their use is responsible and sustainable,' he wrote in a letter to Yasuo Fukuda, the Japanese Prime Minister, as chairman of the Group of Eight industrial nations... The price of rice, the staple food for half the world, has doubled in the past year to an all-time high. Global food prices increased 57% last month from a year earlier, according to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization. The increases have touched off riots as far afield as the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Bolivia and Cameroon."
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