Crime: A child under 10, like this one, dies from hunger or disease related to malnutrition every five seconds. Photo: Eldson Chagara
Philip Hopkins
October 29, 2007
A PROMINENT United Nations activist against famine has demanded a five-year moratorium on biofuels as a new report showed Australia could use its sugar to become a major global provider of ethanol.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said it was a “crime against humanity” to convert food crops to fuel, driving up food prices when there are 854 million hungry people in the world.