There is now a booking form on our website at the following link which you can print off and send with payment to EDA, 8 St Patrick's Terrace, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork. The cost, which includes lunch and teas/coffees, is 50 Euros/waged, 10 Euros/unwaged & students and 1 Euro asylum seekers.
Ethical Development Action Conference
Biofuels and Global Food Security
- Are they compatible?
Can biofuels help to reduce global warming without hindering food security in the developing world?
Come and hear experts from the developing and developed world give their views on this increasingly important issue
Friday 13 June, 2008 at the Metropole Hotel, Cork
Morning Session
9.15 - Tea and Coffee
9.45 – Chairperson Morning Session
9.50 – Biofuel Markets, Policies and World Food Trends – Stephen Thornhill, Ethical Development Action, Ireland
Biofuels in Developing Countries
10.10 - Biofuels in Brazil and South America – Camilla Moreno, Terra De Direitos, Brazil
10.35 - Biofuels in Ethiopia and Africa – Negusu Aklilu, Forum for the Environment, Ethiopia
11.00 – Tea and Coffee
Biofuels in the Developed World
11.30 - Irish Biofuel Developments – Irish Farmers Association
11.50 - EU Biofuel Policies and Potential – Teagasc, Ireland
12.10 – EU and US Biofuel Policies in the Global Context – TBC
12.30 – Morning Panel - Question and Answer Session
End of Morning Session
13.00 – Buffet Lunch 1 hour
Afternoon session
14.00 – Afternoon Chairperson
Biofuels and Climate Change
14.00 – Peak Oil and the Changing Energy Environment - Dr Colin Campbell, Association for the Study of Peak Oil
14.20 – Climate Change and Food Security – Tom Crowley, Trocaire
14.40 – New Developments in Biofuels – Jerry Murphy, University College Cork
15.00 – Tea and Coffee
Biofuels and Food Security
15.30 – Impact of Biofuels on Food Security and Development – Mirella Salvatore, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Rome, Italy
16.00 – World Food Trends and Biofuel Policies – TBC
16.30 – Afternoon Panel - Question and Answer Session
17.00 – Chairpersons Summaries
Thankyou from EDA
End of Conference
