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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

Halt use of biofuels to ease food crisis, says green group

A combine harvester
Ukraine’s 2020 wheat exports came to about 16.4m and supplies are threatened by the Russian invasion. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Governments should put a moratorium on the use of biofuels and lift bans on genetic modification of crops, a green campaigning group has urged, in the face of a growing global food crisis that threatens to engulf developing nations.

Ending the EU’s requirement for biofuels alone would free up about a fifth of the potential wheat exports from Ukraine, and even more of its maize exports, enough to make a noticeable difference to stretched food supplies, according to analysis by the campaign group RePlanet.

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