SHEERAN, Josette. Executive director of the World Food Programme: "biofuels production has diverted lands out of the food chain...world’s poorest are hit hard"

Josette Sheeran is executive director of the World Food Programme (see: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3500954.ece ).

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Programme, told the European Parliament in Brussels (2007): “The shift to biofuels production has diverted lands out of the food chain. Food prices such as palm oil in Africa are now set at fuel prices. It may be a bonanza for farmers – I hope it is true – but in the short term, the world’s poorest are hit hard.” [1].

[1].Josette Sheeran, quoted in Lewis Smith and Francis Elliott, “Rush for biofuels threatens starvation on a global scale”, Times Online, 7 March 2008: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3500954.ece .