How bio-fuels can increase food security

Over the past several years, bio-fuels have become a bone of contention. For some, a renewable energy source produced from organic matter amounts to a magic wand in the fight against climate change. Others view bio-fuels as an existential threat, because the plants used to create them compete for agricultural land and water that would otherwise be used to grow food.
A Kirehe farmer inspects his banana plantation that is intercropped with jatropha trees, one of the oil seed producing plant, cassava and other food crops. (File photo)
A Kirehe farmer inspects his banana plantation that is intercropped with jatropha trees, one of the oil seed producing plant, cassava and other food crops. (File photo)
Jose Graziano da Silva