[NYTr] Biofuel Production Threatens Indigenous Lands
 
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:28:51 -0500 (CDT)


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Corn Demand Seizes Indigenous Lands

Havana, May 16 (acn) The demand for more crops for biofuel production 
is already taking its toll on indigenous populations as they have been 
displaced from their lands, as revealed at an Indigenous Forum underway 
in New York.

According to United Nations statistics cited at the event deforestation 
for biofuel production could put some 60 million native peoples at 
risk, reported Granma newspaper.

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz of the Phillipines noted that the expansion of 
crop areas for ethanol production is pushing out indigenous communities 
and threatens to destroy their cultures and force them to live in urban 
areas.

She said the forum hopes to get the UN General Assembly to approve a 
declaration to protect indigenous peoples from the onslaught of crop 
production for ethanol production, reported Prensa Latina.

The use of corn, soy, palm oil and sugarcane for biofuels has been 
criticized by several UN agencies.

       
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