"At the G20 Summit in London, President Obama announced his intention to ask Congress to double U.S. agricultural development assistance to more than $1 billion in 2010. We will seek to increase our investment annually, and provide at least $3.5 billion over the next three years. Many of the other countries represented at L’Aquila are also making a substantial and sustained commitment to agricultural development with the objective of mobilizing $20 billion over the next three years, and we will be reaching out to other countries as well to join the Global Partnership. This is in addition to the substantial commitments of emergency, humanitarian food aid made by the U.S. and a number of the G8."
It’s too bad that there isn’t some alternative to converting food into fuel. Say something like a fuel made from plants that died millions of years ago. Imagine if you could just drill a hole in the ground & such miracle fuels came gushing up. If we could find pools of old dead plant matter & turn it into fuel; then maybe we could eat food, instead of converting it into fuel. Oh well, that’s just a Utopian dream, I guess.
Translation: F*ck the cotton growers lobby.