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The Geneva Press Club - Club suisse de la Presse, has the pleasure to invite the international, the Swiss press and its members to a press conference on the theme

Agrofuels boom in India : dead end or golden opportunity ?

speakers :

Devinder Sharma
New Dehli (India) based journalist, writer and researcher internationally well-known and respected for his views on food and trade policy. His writings focus on the links between biotechnology, food trade and poverty. He chairs the New Dehli based Forum for Biotechnology and food security.

Caroline Morel
Director of SWISSAID, one of Switzerland's leading aid organisations, will inform on the damages generated by agrofuels production in Colombia and Tanzania, two countries where SWISSAID is working with rural people, and explain the reasons why the aid organisation is supporting a 5 years moratorium.

Wednesday 11th February 2009 at 11a.m.

« La Pastorale » Route de Ferney 106, Genève

India is becoming a new El Dorado for agrofuels. Agrofuels hold a number of opportunities, their promoters say, for example to achieve energy independence. The government of India has identified 12 millions hectares of land where jatropha and other plants will be grown to produce agrofuels. But what are the impacts of the increasing spread of agrofuels on access to land and food for poorer rural people in India ? These are highly debated questions in India - and all over the world.

For more information :
Catherine Morand
SWISSAID
Tel.: 0041-21-620 69 73 or 078 707 26 04
c.morand@swissaid.ch
www.swissaid.ch

The press meeting will be followed by a drink. I look forward to seeing you at this press meeting.

Guy Mettan, Director Executive
Guy Mettan

 

 

 

 

 

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