“We are desperate of food. Nowdays food comes from the city to be sold in the village and not vice versa as before. We could not afford to buy food because the wages we are paid was very little. We do not produce our own food as before because our land has been taken over by foreign companies under privitasation policy to produce biofuel farms. Everybody is talking of hunger as a consequence of mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa (climate change) but for me our reason is that we are farming in unproductive lands. Increased biofuel production has resulted in massive deforestation and has severe implications for our food security, as energy crops replace our normal land uses. Please tell the government we do not like this behavior of biofuel farms.” - Asha Bakari (36) from Mavuji village in Kilwa district.
Farmland in Tanzania cleared for biofuels
The impact of biofuel production on food security, the economic wellbeing of farmers and the environment is a silent catastrophe. Let me explain why.
