Em Agosto de 2007, numa viagem pelas estradas secundárias espanholas de Salamanca a Barcelona, fiquei parvo com a quantidade, com a extensão das plantações de girassol, presumo que para produção de bio-combustível.
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Recordei-me desse cenário por causa deste artigo "Biofuel policy is causing starvation, says Nestlé boss":
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"Soaring food inflation is the result of "immoral" policies in the US which divert crops for use in the production of biofuels instead of food, according to the chairman of one of the world's largest food companies.
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"Today, 35 per cent of US corn goes into biofuel," the Nestlé chairman told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York yesterday. "From an environmental point of view this is a nonsense, but more so when we are running out of food in the rest of the world.
"It is absolutely immoral to push hundreds of millions of people into hunger and into extreme poverty because of such a policy, so I think – I insist – no food for fuel."
Corn prices almost doubled in the year to February, though they have fallen from their peak in the pastfew weeks. Anger at rising food prices contributed to protests across the Middle East, and rising commodities costs were among the factors pushing UK inflation to 4.4 per cent in February, according to figures out yesterday"
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É um factor importante certamente, mas não é único.
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Há o aumento do consumo na Ásia e a transferência de dinheiro de activos financeiros para commodities.
