Crops for Biofuel
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Farmers can switch from producing food crops to producing biofuel crops to make more money, even if the new crops are not edible.The law of supply and demand predicts that if fewer farmers are producing food the price of food will rise. It may take some time, as farmers can take some time to change which things they are growing, but increasing demand for first generation biofuels is likely to result in price increases for many kinds of food.
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