World Ag Officials Consider Food v. Fuel Issue

The "Food vs. Fuel" issue is certainly not limited to the U.S. The topic is now being addressed from a global perspective at the highest levels. Here's the latest from the ongoing U.N. Summit in Rome...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary: Biofuels Deal Possible

ROME-(AP)--U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Wednesday that progress is being made at a U.N. summit on determining the role that biofuels are playing in driving up food prices to the point of provoking riots in some countries.

"It looks as though consensus on this important issue is in reach," Schafer said in a statement acknowledging there had been "some confusion" on earlier comments in which he sounded doubtful an agreement would be found by the end of the three-day summit in Rome.

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