In Ethiopia, as part of the Finance for Development conference that’s going on in Addis Ababa this week, FAO Director General Jose Graziano DA Silva wrote an analysis in a local newspaper promoting the need to produce both food and fuel, calling the alleged competition between the two a “false dichotomy”. He said policymakers could find a way to boost biofuel blending when crop prices are low and lower the blend when crop prices are high.
