Slash and burn?

Overview

China's changing diet and rising energy demand combine to pull land scarcity into ever sharper focus. Food and energy security are both major concerns for policymakers. In biofuels, the two clash. On the one hand, the PRC has set a 95 per cent food security floor (excluding soybeans, a major import). But it also wants to reduce energy imports and last year stepped up biofuels production. In 2007, China's fuel grade ethanol production could reach 1.45 million tonnes, up 12 per cent....

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