1. Meals Per GallonActionAid launches campaign on biofuels Photo: Atul Loke/Panos/ActionAid

2. FlickrPhoto: Nics EventsThe UK governmentis currently planninghow it will meet reduced emissions targets for the transport sector set by the EU 3. Flickr Photo: Left to right,dibygraham,david.nikonvscannon The government should be changing attitudes towards transport and encouraging investment in cleaner technologies + 4. Instead, it is planning to get 10% of all transport fuel from biofuels by 2020 5. Targets like the UKs could force an additional600 millionpeople into hunger by 2020 photo credit:ActionAid Photo: ActionAid Ban Van Tuan is a Vietnamese farmer whose family has been trapped by global food price rises. Everyone has to skip at least one meal a day to cut costs. 6. Flickrphoto:KevinLallier This is because biofuels are usually made from crops such as maize, wheat and sugar which should be on a plate rather than in a petrol tank 7. In the developing world agricultural land is being grabbed to meet the demand for biofuel crops Photo Credit: Tim Rice/ActionAid 8. Local people are losing their land without consultation or compensation which means they can no longer feed their families Photo: James Oatway/PANOS/ActionAid Our livelihood was dependent on the farms and theyve taken the farms. Julio Ngoene, village chief and farmer, Mozambique, November 2009 9. Unbelievably, many industrial biofuels are actually worse for climate change than the fossil fuels they are designed to replace FlickrPhoto :Matt and KimRudge 10. And, fertilisers used to grow biofuels release nitrous oxides which areAT LEAST 300times more damagingto the climate than carbon dioxide FlickrPhoto:selfhatingotaku 11. ActionAid has launched acampaign to pressurethe UK governmentto put the breakson biofuel production FlickrPhoto: JohannesPape 12. We are calling for an end to thegovernment subsidies and financialincentives for biofuels which aredriving land grabbing in the developing world 13. We need your help to convince the government that putting poor peoples food into cars is a bad idea 14.

BUT we only have untilJune 2010as thats

when the Department for Transport and the

Department for Energy and Climate Change will

finalise their report

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What canyoudo?

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Visitactionaid.org.uk/biofuelsand

E-mail the Department for Transport

Lobby your MP

Have your say and join the debate

4.Spread the word and make a difference

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Biofuels:Stop the disaster before it happens

What we want is to get our farms back because that is what our livelihood is dependent on...we are dying of hunger andthere is nothing that we havethat is actually our own. Matilde Ngoene, mother and farmer, Mozambique, November 2009 Photo: James Oatway/Panos/ActionAid 18. www.actionaid.org.uk