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  Fuel and food trade-offs: a preliminary analysis of South African food consumption patterns

  AgEcon Search, 2008

  There are growing concerns that food-fuel tradeoffs are beginning to present serious challenges for food security. Understanding the nature of food-fuels tradeoffs is imperative for effective policy making and safeguarding consumers’ welfare. This preliminary study aims to explain that nature in South Africa, which is conducting a biofuel expansion strategy.
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  Biofuel production and the threat to South Africa's food security

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007

  As biofuel production continues to expand rapidly all over the world, there is increasing concern about how this will affect food prices, particularly of foodcrops used to produce biofuels.