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Biofuels can boost rural employment: IIED [1]

Biofuels can boost incomes and yields for farmers, revitalising impoverished rural areas when they are introduced in countries with secure land ownership, the International Institute for Environment and Development said. By raising the price of crops such as corn and palm oil, biofuels can reduce poverty in countries with a high dependency on agriculture, the London-based researcher said in a report with the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Publication Date: 
03/06/2008
Financial Express (New Delhi) [2]
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Bio Fuel Crops [3], Alternative Fuels [4], Biofuel [5], Poverty [6], Rural Poverty [7]
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