FarmFriday brings you this interesting research from www.eldis.org on the effects of the rising interest in biofuels and how it is affecting poor peoples access to land
The study concludes that, while biofuels can be instrumental in revitalising land use and livelihoods in rural areas, these possibilities depend on security of land tenure. Where competing resource claims exist among local resource users, governments and incoming biofuel producers, and where appropriate conditions are not in place, it finds that the rapid spread of commercial biofuel production may result – and is resulting – in poorer groups losing access to the land on which they depend.
read how the biofuels boom is limiting poor people’s access to land here (PDF)…
