date:Jun 05, 2013
a significant impact on global food security and directly benefit UK consumers.
With respect to biofuels, MPs acknowledge that agriculturally-produced biofuels are having a major detrimental impact on global food security by driving higher and more volatile food prices.
They confirm that EU targets requiring 10 per cent of transport energy to be drawn from renewable sources by 2020 are likely to cause dramatic food price increases.
Responding to this the Committee calls on the UK government t