IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber, who previously served as the chief economist at the USDA, was quoted in a story from The Financial Times about the food vs. fuel argument surrounding corn and biofuels. Said Glauber: ““What strikes is how ethanol production has grown just when we thought it would be flat.” The story mentions that the U.S. is on the brink of an unusually large corn harvest, which will likely bolster the argument of proponents of biofuels. Read the full story here.
US food versus fuel: a debate losing its rage (Financial Times)
September 06, 2016