It bugs me when news reports and pundit analysis display only a farmer and a tractor. Did Bush weasle biofuel incentives to help his friends on the farm?
Corporate control of key agrofuel feedstock
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Top corporations |
Corporate control |
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Maize merchants (US) |
Cargill, ADM |
Top 3 control over 80% of US maize exports |
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Maize seeds (US) |
Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta |
Monsanto controls 41% of global market |
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Sugar trade (Brazil) |
Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, Cosan/Tereos/Sucden |
Cargill is the largest shipper of raw sugar from Brazil |
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Palm oil trade (Global) |
Wilmar, IOI, Synergy Drive, Cargill |
60% of palm oil area in Malaysia is owned by corporations, only 9% is owned by individual landowners. |
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Soya trade (Global) |
Bunge, ADM, Cargill, Dreyfus |
3 companies control 80% of European crushing; 5 companies control 60% of Brazilian production |
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Soya seeds (global) |
Monsanto, DuPont |
Monsanto controls 25% of global market |
At grain.org, they’re saying “Green agribusiness? Don’t be fuelled!”